The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself by Teresa of Avila - 1988

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Books. Good with no dust jacket; A little yellowing on the page edges otherwise . nice and clean.. 1995. Paperback. 0-14-044073-9 . 316 pages; Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplationher spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain. Teresa always denied her own saintliness, however, saying in a letter: "There is no suggestion of that nonsense about my supposed sanctity." This frank account is one of the great stories of a religious life and a literary masterpieceafter Don Quixote, it is Spain's most widely read prose classic. .

Penguin Classics, 1988-01-05. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Unmarked trade paperback creased front cover

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