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A 6 page review of the life and accomplishments of this sixteenth century saint. The Author applies her lessons to our modern world. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Although she hails us from late sixteenth-century Spain, Teresa of Avila represents numerous qualities that are relevant to the modern day world and
our lives in that world. Teresa was a theologian and a mystic that was noted for her visions and her ecstatic prayer experiences, the only female theologian in fact
that found a wide enough recognition to have her work published during that time (Buckridge, 1998). Teresa, however, was living during the Spanish inquisition and in a time when
tremendous changes were occurring the world over. The inquisition attempted to stifle her. As a consequence, the manner that she delivered her message to her followers changed but
it persisted. The lessons that her story hold for our modern world are profound. Teresa Avila, or more formally Teresa Sanchez Cepeda
Davila y Ahumada, took up the habit at age twenty. She had been a serious and retrospective girl even at a young age but her real insight into the
spiritual world came during a prolonged illness as she endured tremendous and chronic suffering. To overcome that suffering she relied on prayer and, ultimately, began to experience visions.
During those visions she was outwardly the same but inwardly she was filed with Gods grace, consolation, and where needed, gentle reminder that hers was to be a life of
unquestioning faith. In her confessions she began to greatly exaggerate the importance and degree of every sin and some of those that she confided in began to believe that
she was under the influence of an evil spirit. The whole village of Avila began to worry about her visions and their origin.
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