| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xxxii, 346 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
This translation originally published: 2007. |
| 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. |
| Language |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Summary |
The autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila combines ecstatic experiences with a dose of common sense. One of the great classics of spiritual memoir, this is the first new English translation in forty years, and the first by a woman. |
| Subject |
Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582.
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Christian saints -- Spain -- Avila -- Biography.
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Christian women saints -- Spain -- Avila -- Biography.
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Avila (Spain) -- Biography.
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Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582. (OCoLC)fst00052461
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Christian saints. (OCoLC)fst00859491
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Christian women saints. (OCoLC)fst00859586
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Spain -- Avila.
(OCoLC)fst01207336
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Starr, Mirabai.
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| Added Title |
Libro de la vida. English
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| ISBN |
9781590305737 (pbk.) |
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1590305736 (pbk.) |
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