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St Teresa of Avila was born in Gotarrendura, Avila on 28 March 1515
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When St Teresa was 2, Lurther started the protestant reformation. Out of all this Teresa came pointing the way from outer turmoil to inner piece.
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She was the daughter of a toledo merchant and his second wife, who died when teresa was only 15. She was one of the ten children. Her father Alonso Sanchez de Capeda, bought a knighthood a assimilated in the christian society. Teresa's mother beatriz wanted to raise her daughter as a pious Christian. Teresa was fascinated by the lives of the saints so she ran away from home at the age of 7 with her brother to find martyrdom among the moors.
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Tries to run away with her brother to the land of moors to become a martyr
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When Teresa was 14, her mother died, causing Teresa to grief that made her embrace a deeper devotion to the Virgin Mary as her spiritual mother.
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Teresa was entrusted to the care of the Augustinian nuns. After she read the letters of Saint Jerome, She resolved to enter a religious life. In 1535, She joined the carmelite order, she spent a number of years in the convent.
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Runs away against her fathers will to a carmelite convent
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St Teresa of Avila achieved many things throughout her life, she wrote books about her vision of God, Her relationship with God and our Lady of Carmel.
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St Teresa of Avila died on October 4 1582 at the age of 67, She died in Alba de Tormes in the arms of her secretary and close friend Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew. Her body has been exhumed many times after her death and every time found sweet-smelling, firm and incorrupt.
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St Teresa was beautified on the 24th of April 1614 by Pope Paul V
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the Spanish parliament proclaimed her the Patroness of Spain
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St Teresa was canonized as a saint on the 12th March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV
