Santa Teresa de Jesús or simply Santa Teresa de Ávila (1515 - 1582) was a nun, founder of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites - a branch of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel -, mystic and Spanish writer. Canonized in 1614. She was proclaimed a doctor of the Catholic Church in 1970 during the pontificate of Paul VI.
This Book is born, like the Book of Life, from the obedience imposed on Saint Teresa. This time to relate his feat of reform of Carmel and foundation of several monasteries throughout Spain.
He writes it between 1573 and 1582. He begins at 58 and concludes months before joining 67. It is therefore a work of his maturity, in which he reluctantly accepts his role as chronicler, making him the one of spiritual director in great Part of your writing.
Their spiritual wisdom is mixed in this book with the history of the time, the quarrels of the Church and the mercantile businesses that each foundation supposes.
He begins complaining about having to write it: "From experience I have seen ... the great good that it is for a soul not to leave obedience ..." and continues explaining who asks for it: "Master Ripalda, having seen this book of the first foundation, it seemed to him that it would be the service of our Lord to write about seven other monasteries that, later here,… have been founded, together with the principle of the monasteries of barefoot parents. ”
He explains that, although he did not consider himself capable of writing a new work: "... The Lord said to me: Daughter, obedience gives strength."
After five years in the first convent founded: San José de Ávila, years of convent life adjusted to the primitive regime, he receives the visit of Fr. Maldonado bringing him news of the immense missionary work required in America, which grieves the Holy, who in prayer hears: "... Wait a little daughter, and you will see great things."
And indeed shortly thereafter he receives the visit of the general father of Rome with: "... fulfilled patents to become more monasteries, with censures so that no provincial could go to my hand."
And this is how Teresa goes to the roads and tells us what she finds in them; scorching sun, cold and mud, good people who help her and traitors who dismiss what was promised. In Medina del Campo, the encounter with San Juan de la Cruz takes place, which, looking for greater solitude and austerity, planned to enter the cartouche of El Paular, when in 1567 he meets Teresa and convinces him to help him in the reform by founding the first Barefoot order monastery: Duruelo, Ávila. She counted 52 years and 24 he.
This Book is born, like the Book of Life, from the obedience imposed on Saint Teresa. This time to relate his feat of reform of Carmel and foundation of several monasteries throughout Spain.
He writes it between 1573 and 1582. He begins at 58 and concludes months before joining 67. It is therefore a work of his maturity, in which he reluctantly accepts his role as chronicler, making him the one of spiritual director in great Part of your writing.
Their spiritual wisdom is mixed in this book with the history of the time, the quarrels of the Church and the mercantile businesses that each foundation supposes.
He begins complaining about having to write it: "From experience I have seen ... the great good that it is for a soul not to leave obedience ..." and continues explaining who asks for it: "Master Ripalda, having seen this book of the first foundation, it seemed to him that it would be the service of our Lord to write about seven other monasteries that, later here,… have been founded, together with the principle of the monasteries of barefoot parents. ”
He explains that, although he did not consider himself capable of writing a new work: "... The Lord said to me: Daughter, obedience gives strength."
After five years in the first convent founded: San José de Ávila, years of convent life adjusted to the primitive regime, he receives the visit of Fr. Maldonado bringing him news of the immense missionary work required in America, which grieves the Holy, who in prayer hears: "... Wait a little daughter, and you will see great things."
And indeed shortly thereafter he receives the visit of the general father of Rome with: "... fulfilled patents to become more monasteries, with censures so that no provincial could go to my hand."
And this is how Teresa goes to the roads and tells us what she finds in them; scorching sun, cold and mud, good people who help her and traitors who dismiss what was promised. In Medina del Campo, the encounter with San Juan de la Cruz takes place, which, looking for greater solitude and austerity, planned to enter the cartouche of El Paular, when in 1567 he meets Teresa and convinces him to help him in the reform by founding the first Barefoot order monastery: Duruelo, Ávila. She counted 52 years and 24 he.
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