Born in the Castilian town of ?vila 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 recognize the power of prayer and contemplation – her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. 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 and a literary masterpiece – after Don Quixote, it is Spain’s most widely read prose classic.
Author: Teresa Of Avila
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 01/05/1988
Series: Penguin Classics
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780140440737
Language: English
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