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	Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Teresa of Avila
		Teresa was disappointed that being a nun was not as easy and peaceful as she had expected.
		Saint Teresa was born on March 28, 1515 in Avila, Spain.
		Teresa turned to the Mother of God to be her mother, and began to consider a vocation among the nuns.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980901/SAINTS/ST_THERESA.HTM (850 words)

	Teresa of Avila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Teresa of Avila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptised as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) was a Spanish Roman Catholic mystic and monastic reformer; born at Avila (53 miles north-west of Madrid), Old Castile, March 28, 1515; died at Alba de Tormes October 4, 1582.
		Teresa was fascinated by accounts of the lives of the saints, and ran away from home several times as a girl to find martyrdom among Moors.
		Teresa's prose is marked by an unaffected grace, an ornate neatness, and charming power of expression, together placing her in the front rank of Spanish prose writers; and her rare poems (Todas las poesías, Munster, 1854) are distinguished for tenderness of feeling and rhythm of thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teresa_of_Avila (1699 words)

	Mother Teresa - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Teresa was born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Üsküb, a town in the Ottoman province of Kosovo (now Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia), where her father was a successful merchant.
		In 1982, Mother Teresa persuaded Israelis and Palestinians, who were in the midst of a skirmish, to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 mentally handicapped patients from a besieged hospital in Beirut.
		He quoted Teresa's words at a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" She replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /mother_teresa.htm (3415 words)

	carmelite.com > Our saints > St Teresa of Jesus (Avila)
		SAINT TERESA OF JESUS is the foundress of the Discalced Carmelite life as it is known today.
		Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada was born in Avila, Spain, on 28th March 1515 and entered the Carmel of the Incarnation there in 1536.
		Teresa assisted in the foundation of the first Discalced Carmelite Friary in Duruelo with St John of the Cross and Fr Antonio of Jesus.
	www.carmelite.com /saints/teresa01.shtml (460 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Saint Thérèse of Lisieux took the religious name of Thérèse of the Child Jesus, while Saint Teresa of Ávila is Teresa of Jesus.
		Saint John of the Cross was imprisoned in a monastery, and Teresa was told to retire to one of her convents during the struggle.
		Saint Teresa is the patroness of lace-makers, Spanish Catholic writers, the Spanish army and commissariat, and headache sufferers (perhaps due to her own chronic ill health).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1015.htm (4431 words)

	St. Teresa of Avila
		Teresa was the "most beloved of them all." She was of medium height, large rather than small, and generally well proportioned.
		Teresa's last foundations were: at Palencia and Soria in 1581, at Burgos in 1582; the most difficult of all, Granada (1582), was entrusted to the Venerable Anne of Jesus.
		Her Way of Perfection Teresa addressed to her nuns, teaching them therein the major virtues that demand their solicitude, casting further light on the practice of prayer, and using the Pater Noster as a vehicle for teaching prayer at greater depth.
	www.karmel.at /eng/teresa.htm (2746 words)

	Teresa of Avila -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who has not yet been canonized, see (Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)) Mother Teresa.
		Teresa was fascinated by accounts of the lives of the saints, and ran away from home several times as a girl to find (One who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion) martyrdom.
		Saint Teresa was the inspiration for one of (Italian sculptor and architect of the Baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)) Bernini's most famous works, (Click link for more info and facts about The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa) The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/teresa_of_avila.htm (1673 words)

	Saint Teresa of Avila
		Born in Avila, Spain, on March 28, 1515, St. Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his second wife, who died when Teresa was 15, one of ten children.
		From 1560 until her death, Teresa struggled to establish and broaden the movement of Discalced or shoeless Carmelites.
		Teresa left to posterity many new convents, which she continued founding up to the year of her death.
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/saint-teresa-of-avila.php (476 words)

	Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Saint Teresa of Avila and Dorothy Day rebelled against Mediocrity
		Teresa lived and wrote at the time of the Inquisition, at a time when they were investigating a movement which emphasized unrestrained infatuation with ecstasy and other extraordinary phenomena.
		For Teresa, interest by the Church in her writings was a grace which helped her to focus on the core, profound truths of the faith rather than fringe elements and exotic devotions.
		Teresa's family, though rich, had a family tree that was considered tainted because her grandfather was Jewish.
	www.cjd.org /paper/roots/rteresa.html (1606 words)

	Illuminating Lives: Teresa of Avila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Teresa's value in the marriage market was dimmed by her converso background, and she dimmed it further herself by having a love affair.
		Teresa was so attractive to men that while she was in Becedas for medical treatment, her confessor not only fell in love with her but wound up confessing his own sins.
		Teresa's autobiography was already being examined by the Inquisition for signs of heresy; and as a woman and the descendant of Jews, she was especially suspect.
	www.mcs.drexel.edu /~gbrandal/Illum_html/Teresa.html (1986 words)

	Commonweal: Catherine & Teresa: doctors of the church. (Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Catherine of Siena)@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pope Paul VI took the unprecedented step of conferring the title 'doctor of the church' on a woman when he named Saint Teresa of Avila a doctor on Sep 27, 1970.
		Saint Catherine of Siena was given the title shortly thereafter.
		Twenty-five years ago, Paul VI broke precedent by declaring Catherine of Siena (1347-80) and Teresa of Avila (1515-82) "doctors" of the church.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17611450&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (227 words)

	Saint Teresa of Avila -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Teresa was elevated to doctor of the church in 1970 by Pope Paul VI, the first woman to be so...
		She was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic church in 1998.
		One of the most highly respected women in the world, Mother Teresa was internationally known for her charitable work among the victims of poverty and neglect—particularly in the slums of Calcutta, India.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9071752?tocId=9071752&query=saint (683 words)

	Saint Teresa of Avila
		Teresa found a separation from her companions grievous; but as her attachments proceeded only from the natural affectionate disposition of her heart, they were soon forgot, and a secret sentiment of honor and of her reputation made her disguise this repugnance.
		Teresa says she had been before accustomed to feel often a tender heavenly sweetness in her devotions; but at this time her soul began to be frequently raised by God to the sublimer degrees of supernatural passive prayer.
		Teresa having had the misfortune in her youth to have been betrayed into certain dangerous amusements and vanities, though she would not for the world have ever consented knowingly to any mortal sin, had always hell and her sins before her eyes, penetrated with the compunction of a Magdalen or a Thais.
	treasuresofgrace.com /catholic/saints/teresav.htm (12659 words)

	Saint Teresa of Avila
		One of Teresa's married sisters began with her husband to erect a small convent at Avila in 1561 to shelter the new establishment; outsiders took it for a house intended for the use of her family.
		Teresa was accordingly sent to the woman, and stayed with her for six months, using a part of the time, at the request of Father Ibanez, to write, and to develop further her ideas for the convent.
		Teresa was told to choose one of her convents and retire to it, and abstain from founding others.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/AVILA.htm (5309 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Avila)
		The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa was brought up by her saintly father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and pious mother.
		The whole city of Avila was troubled by the reports of the visions of this nun.
		Avila (24 Aug., 1562), and after six months obtained permission to take up her residence there.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14515b.htm (1148 words)

	St. Teresa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Teresa was a 16th century religious reformer, and is acknowledged as one of the greatest mystical writers of all time.
		She was born to a well-to-do family, and grew up to be a beautiful young woman, admired for her ready wit and laughter, the center of a wide circle of friends.
		Unlike so many spiritual works before and since, Teresa's writings are filled with common sense, laughter, trust in God, a love of Scripture, and a deep, personal love of Christ, whom Teresa called "His Majesty." They are classics for all times, books that speak to all people everywhere.
	www.stteresa.org /html/st__teresa.htm (362 words)

	Teresa of Avila
		The deeply pious and ascetic ideal after the example of saints and martyrs was early instilled in her by her father, the knight Alonso Sánchez de Cloister Cepeda, and especially by her mother, Life.
		Teresa was fascinated by accounts of the lives of the saints, and ran away from home several times as a girl to find martyrdom.
		After her sprit and example, a similar movement for men was begun by Juan de la Cruz.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/te/teresa_of_avila.html (1563 words)

	October 15 Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Teresa was born in Avila, Spain, on March 28, 1515.
		Teresa of Avila is famous for having opened new Carmelite convents.
		She died in 1582 and was proclaimed a saint by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.
	www.tntt.org /vni/tlieu/saints/St1015.htm (404 words)

	St. Teresa of Avila
		By that time Madre Teresa had returned to the city and was able to tell him about the small farmhouse in Duruelo which had been offered her and which might prove adequate for the first monastery of the Reform among the friars.
		In order that he familiarize himself further with details of the Reform by observing firsthand the daily routine of the nuns, it was decided that he accompany Madre Teresa to the new foundation in Valladolid as confessor and chaplain to the the new community.
		Complete studies can be found in "The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila," Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D., ICS Publication, Institute of Carmelite Studies, Washington, D.C. St. Therese of Lisieux, "The Little Flower" I St.
	www.helpfellowship.org /St_Teresa_of_Avila.htm (3357 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Denominations: Catholicism: Saints: T: Saint Teresa ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Saint Teresa of Avila - Three versions of Teresa's life: for young families, practiced families, and experienced families; by Catherine Fournier.
		Saint Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Avila) - Brief illustrated biography, with prayer.
		Teresa of Avila, Reformer and Contemplative - With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.
	dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism/Saints/T/Saint_Teresa_of_Avila (383 words)

	Saint Teresa of Avila
		St Teresa of Avila is the Mother of the Reform of Carmel.
		St Teresa, while not dealing in depth with such theological precisions, nonetheless implicitly accepts them as she writes practical spirituality for the daughters and priests of the Reform.
		For St. Teresa, that recollection leads to a state of quiet and satisfaction, of enthrallment by that which the soul, after the recollection, sees in itself as the greatest good, namely, its Beloved, Who dwells in the soul and Who should not be sought elsewhere.
	quicksitemaker.com /members/prayer/teresaavila.html (6886 words)

	St. Teresa of Avila
		One of the most charismatic of the Church's counter-reformation saints, Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada was born the daughter of a saintly and literate father, Don Alonso, and a pious mother.
		Inspired by a niece, who was also a Carmelite at Avila, she decided to undertake the establishment of a reformed convent that would be restored to the austerity and devotion of earlier times.
		In 1562, Teresa received approval for a new foundation, the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of the Primitive Rule of Saint Joseph, at Avila, which she began with with her niece and three other nuns.
	www.wf-f.org /StTeresaAvila.html (1238 words)

	Carmelite Orders, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Discalced
		Teresa was canonized in 1622; she was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, the first woman to be so named, in 1970.
		Saint John combined the imagination and sensitivity of a poet with the precision and depth of a theologian and philosopher trained in the tradition of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
		Saint Teresa was a Spanish mystic, born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada at Avila on March 28, 1515.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/carmelit.htm (2159 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Teresa of Avila
		Teresa de Avila; Teresa of Jesus; Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada; The Roving Nun; Theresa of Avila
		Soon after taking her vows, Teresa became gravely ill, and her condition was aggravated by the inadquate medical help she received; she never fully recovered her health.
		She began receiving visions, and was examined by Dominicans and Jesuits, including Saint Francis Borgia, who pronounced the visions to be holy and true.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintt01.htm (792 words)

	Biography: Teresa of Avila, reformer and contemplative (15 Oct 1582) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada (later known as Teresa de Jesus) was born in Avila, Spain, 28 March 1515, one of ten children whose mother died when she was fifteen.
		Teresa, having read the letters of Jerome, decided to become a nun, and when she was 20, she entered the Carmelite convent in Avila.
		At length Teresa was given permission to proceed with her reforms, and she travelled throughout Spain establishing seventeen houses of Carmelites of the Strict (or Reformed) Observance (the others are called Carmelites of the Ancient Observance).
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/10/15.html (374 words)

	St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Born in Avila, Spain, on March 28, 1515, St. Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his second wife, who died when Teresa was 15, one of ten children.
		From 1560 until her death, Teresa struggled to establish and broaden the movement of Discalced or shoeless Carmelites.
		Teresa left to posterity many new convents, which she continued founding up to the year of her death.
	www.ccel.org /t/teresa/teresa.html (303 words)

	Saint Teresa of Avila
		Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, born at Avila, Old Castile, 28 March, 1515; died at Alba de Tormes, 4 Oct., 1582.
		The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa was brought up by her saintly father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and pious mother.
		Teresa, old and broken in health, made further foundations at Villnuava de la Jara and Palencia (1580), Soria (1581), Granada (through her assiatant the Venerable Anne of Jesus), and at Burgos (1582).
	home.klis.com /~cottgj/pages/teresa.html (1095 words)

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