She spent a number of relatively average years in the convent, punctuated by a severe illness that left her legs paralyzed for three years, but then experienced a vision of "the sorely wounded Christ" that changed her life forever.įrom this point forward, Teresa moved into a period of increasingly ecstatic experiences in which she came to focus more and more sharply on Christ's passion. Jerome, Teresa resolved to enter a religious life. Shortly after this event, Teresa was entrusted to the care of the Augustinian nuns. Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his second wife, who died when Teresa was 15, one of ten children. Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada Borned in Ávila, Spain, on March 28, 1515, St. In 1970 she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with John of the Cross, a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. Saint Teresa of Jesús, also called Saint Teresa of Ávila, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation.
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