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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
Category: Books > Spirituality > Classics
Author/Artist: TERESA OF AVILA, J M COHEN (TRANS)
ISBN / ID: 9780140440737
Publisher: Penguin Books
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$24.99
  
Description: 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 recognise the power of prayer and contemplation. Her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences. 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. It is a literary masterpiece and, after Don Quixote, it is Spain's most widely read prose classic.
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