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Mar 28, 1515
Date and place of birth
St. Teresa of Avila was born in Avila, Spain on March 28,1515 -
Feb 26, 1531
Family life
St. Teresa is born in Avila, to a family of 10 siblings and two loving, noble parents. She is baptised as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada.St. Teresa was born to a welcoming, religious and pious family. Her father Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda, was a new comer to the religion because of his father's own conversion from Judaism to Catholic. Her mother, Beatriz, was specially keen to welcome a new girl child to raise a noble Christian. -
Oct 5, 1531
Study of St Teresa of Avila
St Teresa did not study anything but she was in a convent and she started to learn mental prayer. -
Period: Nov 2, 1535 to Jan 1, 1581
Reformation
Teresa entered the Caramelite Monastry on November 2, 1535. She felt disharmony and a loss of connection between her and God in the monastry. Many nuns lived there and they all worked hard to strengthen the spirit of practicing prayer but it all lost its purpose. -
Period: Nov 2, 1535 to Jan 1, 1581
Reformation
The amount of visitors destroyed the atmosphere. Many people of different ranks would also come in and out of the monastry. Teresa felt she had to do something about it. She found a resoloution and it was to found a reformed convent of the Caramelite. Fixing the damaged atmosphere and making the practice of prayer have a purpose. Spanish jews were converted by Teresa to follow the Christian faith. -
Period: Nov 2, 1535 to Jan 1, 1581
Reformation
The new monastry was established in 1562 and was named St. Joseph's, however it fell under poverty. Although they were under poverty the help of strong and high ranked patrons including the bishop helped with this poverty and the monastry get back on its feet -
Apr 24, 1537
Controversies St Teresa was involved in
St Teresa had finally settled in the convent but was still not putting God first in her life. Then suddenly she had a severe seizure that she had woken up to four days later. For three years she was paralysed and instead of using this valuable time to strengthen her faith she believed that God would not have responded to her as she had sinned so greatly against him. -
Aug 4, 1538
Controversies
Teresa faced controversies in her life and another came up. She became seriously ill soon after taking her profession and aborted anything that had to do with medical treatment. She was taken to Becedas by her father as it was their last option. They looked for a woman healer who was famous in the area. Although they had her help Saint Teresa’s health did not recover. She left Becedas in 1538 and stayed with her uncle in Hortigosa . -
Mar 1, 1561
Achievments of St Teresa of Avila
St Teresa established 16 convents during her life,Teresa continued throughout her life to suffer from ailments which physicians found it confusing, during the last two years of her life she somehow found strength to establish three more convents. They were at Granada, in the far south, at Burgos, in the north, and at Soria, in Portugal. -
Oct 4, 1582
Death of St Teresa of Avila
St Teresa of Avila dided on the 4th of october, 1582 -
The canonising of St Teresa of Avila
St Teresa was canonized in 1962
