ST. TERESA was born on March 28, 1515, in Avila, Spain. Her mother died when she was twelve and her father placed her in a convent of Agustinian nuns. When she returned home, she determined to enter religion. She became a nun in the Carmelite convent of the Incardination, near Avila, and made her profession in november, 1534.
Though for many years in the convent she led a good religious life, certain faults still adhered to her; but the moment of grace came at last and the noble heart of St. Teresa began to soar upward to perfection. Inspired by the Holy Ghost and acting under the direction of enlightened men, among whom was St. Peter of Alcantara, she undertook the superhuman task of reforming her Order and bringing it back to the primitive observance. Assisted by St. John of the Cross, she succeded in establishing the reform of the Discalced Carmelites, both for the brethen and the sisters of her Order. Before her death in 1582, thirty-two monasteries of the Reformed Rule had been established, among which seventeen were convents of nuns.
St. Teresa received great gifts from God. She also wrote many books on Mystical Theology considered by Popes Gregory XV and Urban VII to the equal to those of a Doctor of the Church.
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