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St Teresa of Avila was born in Avila, Spain
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Martin Luther, who was a was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk, started the Protestant Reformation.
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St Teresa of Avila convinced her older brother that they should, "go off to the land of the Moors and beg them, out of love of God, to cut off our heads there." They didnt get past the city before one of their uncle's found them and brought them back.
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St Teresa's mother died.
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As a teenager, she only thought about boys,clothes, flirting and rebelling. Due to this, St Teresa was convinced that she was a terrible sinner.
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St Teresa was sent to a convent by her father because she was out of control and could not be controlled. At first she detested it. However she eventually began to enjoy life there because of her growing love for God, and because the convent was a lot less strict than her father.
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When the time came for her to choose between marriage and religious life, St Teresa chose the religious life because she thought that it was the only safe place for someone who was sinner. At the age of 21, St Teresa joined the Carmelite convent permanently.
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St Teresa started to learn and practice mental prayer after she joined the convent. She "tried as hard as I could to keep Jesus Christ present within me....My imagination is so dull that I had no talent for imagining or coming up with great theological thoughts." . This was because prestige depended on money, not on piety.Everyone liked her and she was one to seek attention.Teresa becameinvolved with flattery, vanity and gossip rather than spiritual guidance and becoming closer to God.
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St Teresa became an educational proffessor at the Convent of the Incarnation.
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St Teresa fell sick with malaria. She had few seizures. Because of this, people thought she was dead. Thus she had woken up to find out that a grave had been dug out for her.Fortunately, the predicment of Teresa's death did not occur.Unfortunately, she became paralyzed for three years.
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When she was 41, a priest convinced her to go back to her prayer, however she still found it difficult. she said,"I was more anxious for the hour of prayer to be over than I was to remain there. I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer."
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she became determined to find a new convent that followed and commited tothe basics of a contemplative order: a simple life of poverty devoted to prayer. She was denounced from the pulpit and threatened with the Inquisition.St Teresa bravely set out her plans despite the threats.
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At the age of 51, she felt that it was time to spread her reform movement. She fought many obstacles to find more convents.When voted her in as prioress by her former convent, the leader of the Carmelite order excommunicated the nuns.to avoid riot she would sneak into the town in the middle of the night.
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she was invited to become the founder a convent by an Archbishop. However, she arrived in the middle of the rain and was ordered to leave. Although she was very ill, she was commanded to attend a noblewoman giving birth. By the time they had arrived, the baby was already born.
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Three days after she arrived in Alba de Tormes, St Teresa of Avila died. her words of wisdom and love for God reminds us that people have the ability to change for the better; if they put their minds to it
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St Teresa was canonised in 40 years after her dead by Pope Gregory XV.
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By Pope Paul VI, St Teresa was named the first female Doctor of the Church, by Pope Paul VI.
