Teresa left to posterity many new convents, which she continued founding up to the year of her death. John of the Cross, who she enlisted to extend her reform into the male side of the Carmelite Order. During the mid-1560s, she wrote the Way of Perfection and the Meditations on the Canticle. From 1560 until her death, Teresa struggled to establish and broaden the movement of Discalced or shoeless Carmelites.
Gathering a group of supporters, Teresa endeavored to create a more primitive type of Carmelite. With these visions as her impetus, she set herself to the reformation of her order, beginning with her attempt to master herself and her adherence to the rule.
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. In 1535, she joined the Carmelite Or Saint Teresa of Jesús, also called Saint Teresa of Ávila, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation.
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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