The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of CarmelTeresa, of Avila, Saint
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The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel
Teresa, of Avila, Saint
Avila (Spain) -- Biography; Christian saints -- Spain -- Avila -- Biography; Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582
25. In the Prologue to the Book of Foundations, Father Garcia de
Toledo, her confessor at St. Joseph's Convent, is said to be
responsible for the order to rewrite the "Life"; but in the
Preface to the "Life" St. Teresa speaks of her "confessors" in
the plural. Fathers Ibañez and Bañez may be included in the
number. See also ch. xxx. § 27.
26. Chap. xviii. § 11.
27. Chap. xiii. § 22. In chap. xvi. § 12, the Saint says: "I
wish we five who now love one another in our Lord, had made some
such arrangement, etc." Fuente is of opinion that these five
were, besides the Saint, Father Julian de Avila, Don Francisco de
Salcedo, St. John of the Cross, and Don Lorenzo de Cepeda,
St. Teresa's brother: but this is impossible at the date of this
part of the "Life." It is more probable that she meant Francisco
de Salcedo, Gaspar Daza, Julian de Avila, and Father Ibañez, the
latter being still alive in the beginning of 1564, when this
chapter was written. It is more difficult to say who the three
confessors were whom St. Teresa desired to see the "Life"
(ch. xl. § 32). If, as I think, the book was first handed to
Father Garcia de Toledo, the others may have been Francisco de
Salcedo, Baltasar Alvarez, and Gaspar de Salazar.
28. Chap. x. §§ 11 and 12.
29. This is the second reason why the letter could not have been
addressed to Father Ibañez in 1562.
30. Edited by Don Francisco Herrero Bayona, 1883 p. 4.
31. Ibid., chap. xli. (see Dalton's translation, chap. xxv.).
32. Ibid., chap. lxxiii. See the difference in Dalton's
translation, chap. xlii.
33. Fuente, Obras, vol. vi., p. 275.
34. See the following Preface, p. xxxvii. Lettres, ed. Grégoire,
ii., p. 65. P. Bertholde-Ignace, Vie de la Mère Anne de Jésus,
i., p. 472.
35. In the Prologue to the Book of Foundations, St. Teresa says
that Father Garcia de Toledo ordered her to rewrite the book the
same year in which St. Joseph's Convent was founded, i.e. 1562,
but seeing that she only spent a few hours there and that the
principal difficulties only arose after her return to the
Incarnation, it appears more probable that Father Garcia's
command was not made until the spring of the following year, when
she went to live at St. Joseph's.
36. Chap. x. § 11.
37. See Historia Generalis Fratrum Discalceatorum Ordinis
B. Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo Congregationis Eliae.
Romae, 1668, vol. i., pp. 340-358 ad ann. 1604.
38. See Carmel in England, by Rev. Father B. Zimmerman,
p. 240 sqq.
St. Teresa's Arguments of the Chapters.
J.H.S.
J.H.S. Chapter I. [1]--In which she tells how God [2] began to
dispose this soul from childhood for virtue, and how she was
helped by having virtuous parents.
Chapter II.--How she lost these virtues and how important it is
to deal from childhood with virtuous persons.
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