Tuesday, October 14, 2003

St. Teresa of Avila

Dona Teresa Sanchez d'Avila Cepeda y Ahumada left her Carmelite monastery of the Incarnation in Avila, changed her name to Teresa of Jesus, and founded the new reformed Carmelite monastery of St. Joseph on 24 August 1562. From this small beginnig sprang the Discalced Carmelite Order.

And today, 15 October, is her feast day. An essay on her life can be found here. The full text of her autobiography in the David Lewis translation can be found here. Her first treatise on prayer, The Way of Perfection, can be found here in the E. Allison Peers translation.

There is an outstanding collection of photos of Avila here. Unfortunately, the photographer doesn't tell us what a single one of these images is. I recognze some of them - the city walls, for instance - from other pictures but most are a beautiful mystery.

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