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  The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Saint Teresa, Translated by J. Cohen

  

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  Short Description for The Life of St Teresa of Avila by HerselfBorn 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 recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 27 August 1987
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Religious & Spiritual | European History | Christianity
  • ISBN 13: 9780140440737 ISBN 10: 0140440739
  • Sales rank: 78,062

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• 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 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.