John J. Miller is joined by Carlos Eire of Yale University to discuss The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by Peter ...

The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila is termed an “autohagiography,” a self-justification of saintliness, by Carlos Eire, a professor of history and religious studies at Yale University.

“The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila” is considered among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. ... Despite its troubled origins, the book has had a profound ...

In 1970, Pope Paul VI named St. Teresa of Avila a doctor of the Church, explaining, “We are undoubtedly before a soul in which extraordinary divine initiative was active and was perceived and ...

A statue of St. Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic and doctor of the church, ... Even her books are difficult to grasp and require time to absorb their contents.

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 ...

St. Teresa turned 50 on March 28, 1565, and the reconstruction work represents her at that age. It was around that time that St. Joseph convent in Ávila was founded, the first of those reformed ...

The saint, also known as St. Teresa of Avila, was a Discalced Carmelite nun who died in 1582. The diocese, which is located in Spain, explained that the tomb was last opened in 1914.

The silver coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened in Alba de Tormes Aug. 28 only to confirm her body has remained incorrupt since her death in 1582. The opening of her tomb marks the beginning ...