A Look at Saint Teresa of Avila, the Great Spanish Mystic

When I decided to resurrect (no pun intended) my series on the saints, it had been so long since I wrote the first articles that I couldn’t remember who I had covered already. In looking back at some of those early stories from nearly three years ago, I came across one that needed telling again, both because I was new here and almost no one saw it and because this saint deserves better than that initial effort. The saint is the great Spanish mystic, Teresa of Avila. St. Teresa of Avila is one of the most beloved saints in the world, venerated not only in the Catholic Church, but by Anglicans and Lutherans as well (three groups that rarely agree on anything). She was born in Castile (part of present-day Spain) in 1515, only 23 years after Columbus first voyaged to America. She died in 1582, roughly 20 years after the Council of Trent. And only two years after her birth, Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Knowing the time in which she lived matters, because it was a time of momentous change religiously, politically, and in every other way possible. <a href="https://paulcombs.medium.com/a-look-at-saint-teresa-of-avila-the-great-spanish-mystic-92570222f432">Website</a>