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The Life of Saint Teresa of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel [by E. Lockhart, Based on Quotations From a Transl. of St. Teresa's Vida] Ed.
The Life of Saint Teresa of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Ed - by E. Lockhart, Based on Quotations From a Transl. of St. Teresa's Vida Author:Lockhart Title: The Life of Saint Teresa of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel [by E. Lockhart, Based on Quotations From a Transl. of St. Teresa's Vida] Ed. by (h.e. Manning) the Archbishop of Westminster General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illu... more »strations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H. 1530-1537. TERESA IS PLACED BY HER FATHER IN AN ATJGUSTDflAN CON- VENT -- HER ILLNESS AND VOCATION TO RELIGION SHE ENTERS THE CARMELITE CONVENT OP THE INCARNATION AT AVILA HER NOVICIATE AND PROFESSION. Some suspicion of his daughter's danger was conveyed to the mind of Alonzo de Cepeda, by the anxious care of her elder sister Dona Maria, whose approaching marriage with a nobleman, named Don Martin de Guzman furnished a fitting opportunity for placing Teresa in the safe keeping of some good religious of the order of S. Augustine, devoted to the education of young persons of quality. Some days before she entered the convent, while the nuns were saying office, a star-like light appeared in the middle of the choir, and having circled round the religious, seemed to disappear in the bosom of Dona Maria Briceno, the mistress of the pensioners. In after years the nuns recognised the meaning of the vision, as betokening the brilliant light which was to be intrusted for a while to the fostering care of Dona Maria. Teresa's first week in the convent was troubled by many unquiet memories of the vain excitement of the last few months at home. The stillness of the cloister and the calm faces of the nuns were felt at first as an oppressive burden, but gradually our Lord opened her heart to the quiet happiness around her; it felt like balm upon her fevered and agitated spirit; she began to love the hou...« less