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Born in Avila, Spain, on March 28, 1515..... Untill Death where she became very ill
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Teresa was fascinated by accounts of the lives of the saints, and ran away from home at age seven with her brother Rodrigo to find martyrdom among the Moors. Outside the City gates their uncle found and stopped them.
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When she was 14 years old her mother passed away,
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When St Teresa Of Avila was 16, her father decided she was out of control and sent her to a convent.She disliked it at first but then eventually had second opinions because it brang her closer to God.
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In 1535, St Teresa Of Avila joined the Carmelite Order
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St Teresa Of Avila caught a severe illness that left her legs paralyzed for three years, but then experienced a vision of "the sorely wounded Christ" that changed her life forever.
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After many years of offering her life to God, St Teresa Of Avila to the Camelite Order
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During the mid-1560s, St Teresa Of Avila wrote the Way of Perfection and the Meditations on the Canticle.
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In 1567, St Teresa Of Avila met St. John of the Cross, who she enlisted to extend her reform into the male side of the Carmelite Order
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St Teresa Of Avila was canonized in 1622
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St Teresa Of Avila also left an autobiography, ''the Life of Teresa of Avila''
