Saint teresa of avila

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View The Christ Child appearing to Saint Teresa of Avila by Sebastian de Llanos Valdes on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Sebastian de Llanos Valdes.

If you want to talk about a powerful Catholic woman (besides our Blessed Mother), St. Teresa of Avila is it. Hanging above my desk at the Pilgrim Center of Hope (which used to be a Teresian convent…

St Theresa of Avila

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Levitation was the last thing Teresa of Avila wanted. It drew the wrong kind of attention and embarrassed her in public. She tried to remain grounded, clinging to furniture when the weightlessness set in, and then suddenly, it stopped for good. Carlos Eire reads Teresa's autobiographic *Vida* and finds the 16th-century saint complaining to God about the aethrobatic miracles that he forced her to endure.

St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus at age four, counting their practice of virtue with her sister Celine. "The love of Our Lord appears as wel...

This series of paintings shows the Doctors of the Church who are women. Recently I read that St. Hildegard of Bingen has also been given th...

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"'If I had not been accepted in Carmel, I would have entered a Refuge (for fallen women) and lived out my days there, unknown and despised among the poor penitents. I would have been happy to be taken as one of them, and would have become an apostle among them, telling them what I thought of God's mercy.'" - St. Therese, from 'St. Therese By Those Who Knew Her'.