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The Book of the Foundations of S. Teresa of Jesus, Written by Herself, Tr. by D. Lewis
The Book of the Foundations of S Teresa of Jesus Written by Herself Tr by D Lewis Author:Teresa General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XX. THE MONASTERY OF OUB LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION, ALBA DE TORMES, IN THE YEAR 1571. 1. Two months had not passed since I took Torme. possession, on All Souls Day, i of the house in Salamanca, when I was urged, on the part of the steward of the duke of Alba and his wife, to found a monastery in that town. I was not very willing to do so, for it would be necessary, because it was a small place, to have an endowment, and my inclination was never to have any. The father master, Fra Dominic Banes, my confessor, of whom I spoke in the beginning of the history of these foundations, being then in Salamanca, rebuked me, and said that, as the council3 allowed endowments, it would not be well if I refrained from founding a monastery for that reason -- that I did not understand the matter, for an endowment need not hinder the nuns from being poor and most perfect. Before I say more I will tell who the foundress was, and how our Lord made her the foundress of this house. IHS. 2. Teresa de Layz, the foundress of the monastery Teresa de of the Annunciation of our Lady of Alba de Tonnes, was the daughter of parents of noble birth, ancient lineage, and honoured ancestry, who, because they were not so wealthy as they were well-born, had settled in a place called Tordillos, some two leagues from Alba. It is very sad, because so much vanity is in the world, that people shouldwillingly undergo the loss of instruction, and of many other things which help to give light to the soul, which is inseparable from dwelling in small villages, rather than give up one of those distinctions which that which men call thei...« less