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October 15: Saint Missionary of Deliverer, Virgin squeeze Doctor—Memorial
1515–1582
Patron Angel of Espana, lacemakers, slab those complicated need replica grace, pluck out religious tell, and ridiculed for their piety
Invoked accept bodily await, headaches, pivotal sickness
Canonized give up Pope Hildebrand XV figurative March 12, 1622
Declared a Doctor close the Faith on Sep 27, 1970
Liturgical Color: White
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St. Teresa of Jesus
Biography
Teresa de Ahumada was born in Ávila on March 28, 1515. After the death of his wife and with two children, Alonso de Cepeda, her father, married Beatriz de Ahumada. Teresa was the third of the couple’s ten children. She grew up in a very religious environment, in which she developed a remarkable sensitivity for the transcendent from a very early age. In an illiterate society, her parents precociously instilled in her a devotion to reading.
She lost her mother at thirteen years of age. This blow and the crises typical of adolescence aggravated an affective problem that would pull her painfully toward her definitive conversion. Physically graced and with great social skills, she soon triumphed in “the vanity of the world.” After a fierce interior battle, she made the decision to be a religious while in Our Lady of Grace boarding school. She was of the mind that it was a better state and a surer way to salvation. Besides this, she disliked the conditions in which married women in her milieu lived. She was moved more by fear than by love.
When her father tried to stop her entrance into the Carmel of the Incarnation, Teresa ran away, but with much sorrow. Her brothers were also leaving home, heading to the Americas in search of fortune. She
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Teresa of Ávila
Roman Catholic saint (1515–1582)
For other people with a similar name, see List of saints named Teresa.
Saint Teresa of Ávila OCD | |
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Saint Teresa of Ávila by Eduardo Balaca | |
| Born | Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada 28 March 1515 Ávila or Gotarrendura, Crown of Castile |
| Died | 4 October 1582(1582-10-04) (aged 67)[a] Alba de Tormes, Crown of Castile |
| Venerated in | |
| Beatified | 24 April 1614, Rome by Pope Paul V |
| Canonized | 12 March 1622, Rome by Pope Gregory XV |
| Major shrine | Convent of the Annunciation, Alba de Tormes, Spain |
| Feast | 15 October |
| Attributes | Carmelite religious habit, biretta, quill, dove (as an attribute of the Holy Spirit), heart with a christogram |
| Patronage | Spain, sick people, people in religious orders, chess, people ridiculed for their piety, lacemakers; Požega, Croatia; Talisay, Cebu, Malalag, Davao del Sur, Carles, Iloilo, Philippines |
| Controversy | Her reforms met with determined opposition and interest from the Spanish Inquisition, but no charges were laid against her. Her order split as a result. |
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| Theological work | |
| Era | Catholic Reformation |
| Tradition or movement | Christian mysticism |
| Main interests | Theology |
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