Directory of Saint Teresa of Avila Resources

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Sites related to St. Teresa of Avila, a sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite mystic, writer, founder/reformer. St. John of the Cross was her protégé. She was the first woman to be named a Doctor of the Church.

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• A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa

  http://www.bartleby.com/236/28.html
  Poem by Richard Crashaw. In The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.

• A Saint a Day: St. Teresa of Avila

  http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/saints/1015_teresa.asp
  Short biography, especially suited to children.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Teresa of Avila

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14515b.htm
  Or Teresa of Jesus. Carmelite reformer and founder, mystic, author, d. 1582.

• Catholic Online: St. Teresa of Avila

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=208
  Life of St. Teresa, by Terry Matz.

• CatholicSaints.Info: Teresa of Avila

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-teresa-of-avila/
  Illustrated profile.

• Saint Teresa of Avila

  http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980901/SAINTS/ST_THERESA.HTM
  Three versions of Teresa's life: for young families, practiced families, and experienced families; by Catherine Fournier.

• Saint Teresa of Avila, Virgin, Foundress

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/AVILA.htm
  From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

• St. Teresa

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/TERESA.HTM
  Pamphlet by David Lewis, originally published in 1954.

• Teresa of Avila, Reformer and Contemplative

  http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/10/15.html
  With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.

• The Feminine in Prayer in "The Interior Castle"

  http://showcase.netins.net/web/solitude/vilma2.html
  Article by Vilma Seelaus, originally published in "Spiritual Life."

• The Flaming Heart

  http://www.bartleby.com/236/29.html
  Poem by Richard Crashaw "Vpon the book and Picture of the seraphicall saint Teresa, (as she is vsvally expressed with a Seraphim biside her)." In The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.

• Women Saints, Doctors of the Church

  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021599.htm?once=true&
  Short feature story by Jone Johnson Lewis on SS. Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena, the first two women Doctors of the Church.

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