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Leighton Library has 1649 3-volume 2nd edition of "Las obras de la S. madre Teresa de Jesus" autobiography of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Added at 06:48 on 04 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1649 3-volume 2nd edition of "Las obras de la S. madre Teresa de Jesus" the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Jesus, who died #OnThisDay 4 October 1582. She was a Spanish Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer. In her autobiography, written between 1562 and 1565 as a defence of her ecstatic mystical experiences, she discerns four stages in the ascent of the soul to God: mental prayer and meditation; the prayer of quiet; absorption-in-God; ecstatic consciousness. Forty years after her death, in 1622, Teresa was canonized by Pope Gregory XV. On 27 September 1970 Pope Paul VI proclaimed Teresa the first female Doctor of the Church (given by the Catholic Church to saints recognized as having made a significant contribution to theology or doctrine through their research, study, or writing). The fact that she wrote down virtually everything that happened to her during her religious life means that an invaluable and exceedingly rare medical record from the 16th century has been preserved.

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