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
It is not said that the translation was made from the Spanish,
and there are grounds for thinking it to have been made from the
Italian. Ch. xxxii. is broken off at the end of § 10; and
ch. xxxiii., therefore, is ch. xxxvii. That which is there
omitted has been thrown into the Book of the Foundations, which,
in the translation of Mr. Woodhead, begins with § 11 of
ch. xxxii. of the Life, as it also does in the Italian
translation. It is due, however, to Mr. Woodhead to say that he
has printed five of the Relations separately, not as letters, but
as what they really are, and with that designation.
The last translation is that of the Very Reverend John Dalton,
Canon of Northampton, which is now, though twice published,
almost as scarce as its predecessors. The title is:
"The Life of St. Teresa, written by herself, and translated
from the Spanish by the Rev. John Dalton. London, MDCCCLI."
Septuagesima, 1870.
1. Fr. Anton. a St. Joseph, in his note on letter 16, but letter
41, vol. iv. ed. Doblado.
2. Reforma de los Descalços. lib. i. ch. vii. § 3.
3. Ch. iii. § 2.
4. Ch. iii. § 9.
5. Ch. i. § 3.
6. Ch. xxiii. § 2.
7. Ch. xxiii. § 8.
8. Id. § 12.
9. Ch. xxiv. § 1.
10. Id. § 4.
11. Ch. xxix. § 4.
12. Ch. xxxiii. § 6.
13. The Saint held him in great reverence, and in one of her
letters--lett. 355, but lett. 100, vol. ii. ed. Doblado--calls
him a founder of her Order, because of the great services he had
rendered her, and told her nuns of Seville that they need not be
veiled in his presence, though they must be so in the presence of
everybody else, and even the friars of the Reform.
14. See Life, ch. xxix. § 6.
15. Rel. vii. § 9.
16. Reforma de los Descalços, lib. ii. c. xxviii. § 6.
17. Introduccion al libro de la Vida, vol. i. p. 3.
18. Jerome Gratian, Lucidario, c. iv.
19. Life, ch. xxxvi. § 15.
20. The Saint says of herself, Rel. vii. § 18, that "she took the
greatest pains not to submit the state of her soul to any one who
she thought would believe that these things came from God, for
she was instantly afraid that the devil would deceive them both."
21. Rel. vii. § 16.
22. "Como hombre criado toda mi vida en leer y disputar" (De la
Fuente, ii. p. 376).
23. 2 Cor. xi. 14: "Ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in
angelum lucis."
24. The other theologian appointed by the Inquisition, with Fra
Bañes, to examine the "Life."
25. This took place in the year 1580, according to the Chronicler
of the Order (Reforma de los Descalços, lib. v. c. xxxv. § 4);
and the Bollandists (n. 1536) accept his statement. Fra Jerome
says he was Provincial of his Order at the time; and as he was
elected only on the 4th of March, 1581, according to the
Chronicler and the Bollandists, it is more likely that the
audience granted to them by the Cardinal took place in 1581.
26. Reforma de los Descalços, lib. v. c. xxxiv. § 4: "Relaciones
de su espiritu."
27. Rel. ii. § 18.
Annals of the Saint's Life.
By Don Vicente de la Fuente.
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