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Teresa of Avila born in Gotarrendura on March 28th
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Attempts to run away with her brother to become a matyr of the Church but was brought back y family members and told to 'grow up'.
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Enters Augustinian convent, Santa Maria de Gracia
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Returns home to recover
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Teresa signs religious dowry is signed and she wears a Carmelite habit (November 2)
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Leaves convent and travels to Becedas where she is treated by a healer but her sickness only worsens
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Teresa returns to her fathers house in Avila and is in a coma for four days. Preparations for her burial are undertaken but she awakes dramatically and salthough in much pain and paralyzed she returns to the convent and spends the next three years in the infirmary.
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Attributes her healing to St. Joseph
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Teresa gets complete authority from the Carmelite General, to build other convents with her own constitutions from St. Joseph's convent. While not attacking the Reformation physically, she was reforming the Church institutions to counter the Reformations.
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Teresa falls ill to influenza and almost dies
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Dies in the arms of Ana de San Bartholome.
Declared a Doctor of the church September 27, 1970 -
32 years after Teresa's passing, she finally recognised to become a saint, by the Catholic Church and Pope Paul V. The Spanish Government also announces her to be the Patroness of Spain.
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Pope Gregory XV announces Blessed Teresa to become St. Teresa of Avila. She becomes the saint of headaches, Spain, loss of parents (orphans) and people in need of grace.
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St Teresa is named the first female Doctor of the Church, one of the highest honours in the Church.