For nearly 450 years, the body of St. Teresa of Avila has been encased inside her silver coffin. Her tomb has now been opened for the first time in 110 years, allowing scientists to analyze her ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the face of Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the most influential figures of Spanish Catholicism to mark the 510th anniversary of her birth. This ...

A statue of St. Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic and doctor of the church, stands in the sanctuary of the Serra Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (CNS photo/Nancy ...

Over 90,000 pilgrims flocked to Alba de Tormes, Spain, May 11-25, to venerate the incorrupt body of St. Teresa of Ávila — marking just the third public exposition of her relics since her death ...

The Life of St. Teresa, Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, and numerous poems remain classical works in spiritual theology and led to her proclamation as a Doctor of the Church by Pope St ...

The Diocese of Avila recently announced that the sixteenth-century tomb of St. Teresa of Avila, which had been opened in 1914, had been reopened and found in remarkable condition.

The remains of St. Teresa of Ávila, a Spanish nun, are still intact hundreds of years after her death in 1582, Catholic Church officials say.

Saint Teresa of Avila, also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus, was born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada in 1515. A pivotal figure in the period known as the Contrareformatio, or Counter ...

St. Teresa of Jesus, also called St. Teresa of Avila, was a Discalced Carmelite nun who was born in 1515 and died in 1582. This weekend, her body was put on public display in Alba de Tormes, Spain ...

The remains of Saint Teresa of Ávila, the Spanish saint, mystic, and 16th-century religious reformer, are displayed at a church in Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, northwestern Spain, on Sunday, May 11 ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the face of Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the most influential figures of Spanish Catholicism to mark the 510th anniversary of her birth. This ...