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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself

By Teresa of Avila

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
1988
ISBN
0140440739
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
426 kB (436259 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Edition
Reprint
Pages
0\0
Topic
Biology
Time added
2016-10-28 05:18:40

Description

J. M. Cohen (Translator)Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation—her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain. Teresa always denied her own saintliness, however, saying in a letter: "There is no suggestion of that nonsense about my supposed sanctity." This frank account is one of the great stories of a religious life and a literary masterpiece—after Don Quixote, it is Spain's most widely read prose classic.

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