Teresa of avila

Teresa of Avila

By bella.mason
  • Mar 28, 1515

    Birth

    Teresa of Avila born in Gotarrendura on March 28th
  • Jan 1, 1522

    Runs Away

    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'.
  • Jan 1, 1531

    Enters Convent

    Enters Augustinian convent, Santa Maria de Gracia
  • Jan 1, 1532

    Falls ill

    Returns home to recover
  • Jan 1, 1535

    Joins Carmelite Convent

  • Oct 31, 1536

    Religious dowry is signed

    Teresa signs religious dowry is signed and she wears a Carmelite habit (November 2)
  • Jan 1, 1537

    Professes vows as a Carmelite nun

  • Jan 1, 1538

    Falls ill again

    Leaves convent and travels to Becedas where she is treated by a healer but her sickness only worsens
  • Jan 1, 1539

    In a coma for four days

    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.
  • Jan 1, 1542

    Regains full use of limbs

    Attributes her healing to St. Joseph
  • Aug 24, 1562

    Founds San Jose de Avila Convent

  • Aug 15, 1567

    Teresa get authourization

    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.
  • Period: Mar 25, 1568 to Mar 25, 1581

    Founds various convents throughout Europe

  • Jan 1, 1573

    Began to write the Foundations

  • Jan 1, 1580

    Falls ill

    Teresa falls ill to influenza and almost dies
  • Mar 25, 1582

    Finishes the Foundations

  • Oct 4, 1582

    Death

    Dies in the arms of Ana de San Bartholome.
    Declared a Doctor of the church September 27, 1970

  • Teresa is beatified

    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.

  • Teresa of Avila is Canonized

    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.

  • Decared a Doctor of the Church

    St Teresa is named the first female Doctor of the Church, one of the highest honours in the Church.