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The time has come to consider anew the great 16th century woman and saint. This book contains a new introduction by Benedicta Ward of Oxford University, herself an Anglican nun who helps readers to do so. Teresa called this her big book. It is a work of literary genius and heroic love. It is the testimony of an epic life.

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TERESA OF ÁVILA (1515-82), also called St. Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish nun and one of the great mystics and religious women of the Roman Catholic Church. She was the leader of the Carmelite Reform, which restored and emphasized the austerity and contemplative character of this religious order. Canonized in 1622, she was elevated to Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI in 1970, the first woman to be so honored. E. ALLISON PEERS is the translator of many great works of Spanish verse and mysticism.

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