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Saint Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Avila) - English
URL: http://www.carmelites.ie/Saints/teresaofavila.htm

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Teresa was born in Avila in Spain in 1515. She entered the Carmelites and made great progress in the way of perfection and was granted mystical revelations. Wishing to share in the spiritual renewal of the Church of her time, she began to live her religious life more ardently and soon attracted many companions, to whom she was like a mother. She also helped in the reform of the friars, and in this had to endure great trials.

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St. Teresa - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/TERESA.HTM

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Saint Teresa of Avila - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/AVILA.htm

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In the Autobiography which she completed towards the end of her life, Saint Teresa of Avila gives us a description of her parents, along with a disparaging estimate of her own character. "The possession of virtuous parents who lived in the fear of God, together with those favors which I received from his Divine Majesty, might have made me good, if I had not been so very wicked."

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Theresa, Saint (Theresa of Avila). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/TheresaA.html

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1515–82, Spanish Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church, one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the greatest mystics, and a leading figure in the Counter Reformation.

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The Feminine in Prayer in The Interior Castle - English
URL: http://showcase.netins.net/web/solitude/vilma2.html

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St. Teresa's restores the feminine in God, so that the God of Teresa is both masculine and feminine. Vilma describes the need for both men and women to be conscious of their language for God.

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Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Teresa of Avila - English
URL: http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980901/SAINTS/ST_THERESA.HTM

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Saint Profiles: Saint Teresa of Avila. A brief history of the life of a saint in three accounts, for young families (children 0-8), for practiced families (children 8-14), and experienced families (children 14-adult) By Catherine Fournier.

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Biography: Teresa of Avila, reformer and contemplative (15 Oct 1582) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/10/15.html

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Teresa of Avila - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintt01.htm

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Also known as Theresa of Avila; The Roving Nun; Teresa of Jesus; Teresa de Avila Memorial 15 October; 27 August (Transverberation of her Heart) Profile Spanish noble, the daughter of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda and Dońa Beatriz. She grew up reading the lives of the saints, and playing at "hermit" in the garden. Crippled by disease in her youth, which led to her being well educated at home, she was cured after prayer to Saint Joseph.

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Catholic Online - Saints - St. Teresa of Avila - English
URL: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=208

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Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Out of all of this change came Teresa pointing the way from outer turmoil to inner peace.

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St. Teresa of Avila - English
URL: http://www.karmel.at/eng/teresa.htm

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Saint Teresa was born in Avila, Spain, March 28, 1515. She died in Alba, October 4, 1582. Her family origins have been traced to Toledo and Olmedo. Her father, Alonso de Cepeda, was a son of a Toledan merchant, Juan Sanchez de Toledo and Ines de Cepeda, originally from Tordesillas. Juan transferred his business to Avila, where he succeeded in having his children marry into families of the nobility. In 1505 Alonso married Catalina del Peso, who bore him two children and died in 1507. Two years later Alonso married the 15-year-old Beatriz de Ahumada of whom Teresa was born.

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