Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xxxii, 346 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Induction -- Prologue -- My turbulent youth -- A child's passion for God -- Falling dangerously in love -- Our Lady of Grace -- Taking the habit -- Illness and patience -- Saint Joseph's cure -- Prisoner of the parlor -- Twenty years of turbulence -- Tears of conversion -- First favors -- The four waters -- The garden -- Lifting the bucket -- Joyful abandon -- The waterwheel -- The prayer of quiet -- The stream of holy madness -- The fragrance of virtue -- The prayer of union -- Divine rain -- Prayer of pain -- Advice to world leaders -- Sacred humanity -- Visions and voices -- A new life -- Resisting the gifts -- Spiritual voices -- A living book -- The perils of temperance -- His hands -- The beautiful wound -- Fire and water -- Holy water -- A glimpse of the underworld -- Divine disobedience -- Secret preparations -- Holy poverty -- Founding Saint Joseph's -- Divine friendship -- Flight of the spirit -- Beyond doubt -- Soul on fire -- Epilogue. |
Subject |
Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582.
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Christian saints -- Spain -- Avila -- Biography.
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Avila (Spain) -- Biography.
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Added Author |
Starr, Mirabai.
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Added Title |
Libro de la vida. English
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ISBN |
9781590303658 hardcover alkaline paper |
Standard No. |
9781590303658 |
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