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  1  Pref,   1     |                of the Complete Works of St. John of the Cross, in the
  2  Pref,   1     |                to whom he owed so much, St. Teresa. Even when the welcome
  3  Pref,   1     |          existence. But many readers of St. John of the Cross were
  4  Pref,   1     |                of this opinion: not all St. Teresa's works, they said,
  5  Pref,   1     |                asked me when a complete St. Teresa was to appear in
  6  Pref,   2     |                It might be thought that St. Teresa -- so often colloquial
  7  Pref,   2     |                easier to translate than St. John of the Cross, but
  8  Pref,   2     |                 passages and phrases in St. John of the Cross which
  9  Pref,   2     |              great objectivity. Much of St. Teresa's work, on the other
 10  Pref,   2     |                qualities of the work of St. Teresa, it will be worth
 11  Pref,   2     |             intensity than does that of St. Teresa -- and this both
 12  Pref,   2(*)  |             references for the works of St. Teresa (except for Life)
 13  Pref,   2(*)  |              refer to Complete Works of St. Teresa, translated and
 14  Pref,   2     |                                  Again, St. Teresa has continual outbursts
 15  Pref,   2     |             made. This trait in herself St. Teresa never allows us
 16  Pref,   2     |             chapter of the Foundations, St. Teresa observes that lack
 17  Pref,   2     |               And there are words which St. Teresa uses in a sense
 18  Pref,   2     |         repetition, a practice to which St. Teresa was greatly addicted.
 19  Pref,   2     |             voices"). Three words which St. Teresa by no means always
 20  Pref,   2     |                 For convenience's sake, St. Teresa's usage here being
 21  Pref,   2     |        ambiguous, "she" is used only if St. Teresa appears to have
 22  Pref,   3     |          possible commentary on many of St. Teresa's ascetic and mystical
 23  Pref,   3     |           subject-index to the works of St. John of the Cross.40 So
 24  Pref,   3(39) |                in the Complete Works of St. John of the Cross.]~
 25  Pref,   3     |           outline of the main events in St. Teresa's career, however,
 26  Pref,   3     |                 just as in the works of St. John of the Cross -- even
 27  Pref,   3     |                 Castle and Conceptions, St. Teresa's style is more
 28  Pref,   3     |                 colloquial than that of St. John of the Cross, and
 29  Pref,   3     |                                         St. Teresa's quotations from
 30  Pref,   3     |             throw so many sidelights on St. Teresa's life and times.
 31  Pref,   4     |                 which includes not only St. Teresa and St. John of
 32  Pref,   4     |                 not only St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross but the
 33  Pref,   4     |                of difficult passages in St. John of the Cross, died
 34  Pref,   4     |               after I had begun work on St. Teresa. This edition will
 35  Pref,   4     |              lived for so many years in St. Teresa's own Castile, and
 36  Abbr          |                  Letters. -- Letters of St. Teresa. Unless otherwise
 37  Abbr          |                of P. Silverio. Letters (St.) indicates the translation
 38  Abbr          |                   Lewis. -- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, etc. Translated
 39  Abbr          |                London, 1927-30. 2 vols.~St. John of the Cross -- The
 40  Outl          |               An Outline of the Life of St. Teresa~
 41  Outl,   0     |           Enters Augustinian Convent of St. Mary of Grace, Avila, as
 42  Outl,   0     |              nun took the habit," wrote St. Teresa in 1576: R IV, p.
 43  Outl,   0     |                 XXIII).~(1557. Visit of St. Francis Borgia to Avila [
 44  Outl,   0     |              Avila (August).~1562-7. At St. Joseph's, Avila ("The most
 45  Outl,   0     |           authorizing the foundation of St. Joseph's received from
 46  Outl,   0     |              The Bishop is persuaded by St. Peter of Alc‡ntara to sanction
 47  Outl,   0     |                Foundation of Convent of St. Joseph, Avila (1).~August (
 48  Outl,   0     |                 March). Goes to live at St. Joseph's, Avila.~July 3.
 49  Outl,   0     |                 from the Incarnation to St. Joseph's.~1564~August 21.
 50  Outl,   0     |             Avila and (April 27) visits St. Teresa, authorizing her
 51  Outl,   0     |               with Antonio de Jesœs and St. John of the Cross the foundation
 52  Outl,   0     |          Escalona (LL 6).~June 2-30. At St. Joseph's, Avila. Rafael
 53  Outl,   0     |                  Arrives at Valladolid. St. John of the Cross has accompanied
 54  Outl,   0     |                  P. Alonso Gonz‡lez, at St. Joseph's; in June, at Medina
 55  Outl,   0     |             Between May and September). St. John of the Cross becomes
 56  Outl,   0     |               letter (LL 45) written by St. Teresa to Philip II.~August.
 57  Outl,   0     |           October 6 (about). Returns to St. Joseph's, Avila, as Prioress.~
 58  Outl,   0     |             From June 1576 to June 1580 St. Teresa is mainly at Toledo
 59  Outl,   0     |                 for the transference of St. Joseph's from the jurisdiction
 60  Outl,   0     |                  Avila. Nuns voting for St. Teresa are excommunicated.
 61  Outl,   0     |            Interior Castle.~December 3. St. John of the Cross and a
 62  Outl,   0     |              219, 246-7).~December 4.44 St. Teresa complains of this
 63  Outl,   0     |        throughout this year: LL 237 ff. St. Teresa is in Avila.)~(September
 64  Outl,   0     |                   P. Salazar authorizes St. Teresa to resume the visitation
 65  Outl,   0     |                   August 16. Leaves for St. Joseph's, Avila, via Burgo
 66  Outl,   0     |                 10. Elected Prioress of St. Joseph's, Avila.~1582~January
 67  Outl,   0     |              Convent at Granada (16) in St. Teresa's absence.~April
 68  Outl,   0(44) |                 11 and 17 of this year, St. Teresa had an interview
 69  Intr          |            Introduction to the Works of St. Teresa~
 70  Intr,   0     |             centuries have passed since St. Teresa began to write,
 71  Intr,   0     |              with them to the grave. To St. Teresa it was given to
 72  Intr,   0     |               or the Interior Castle of St. Teresa, with the single
 73  Intr,   0     |             qualified to speak of them. St. Teresa is remarkable both
 74  Intr,   0     |                        If obedience was St. Teresa's primary motive
 75  Intr,   0     |                 earliest biographies of St. John of the Cross, makes
 76  Intr,   0     |                              Our Mother St. Teresa wrote five books
 77  Intr,   0     |              more have been credited to St. Teresa, though hardly on
 78  Intr,   0     |               thought to be the work of St. Teresa as long ago as 1630,
 79  Intr,   0     |                              P. Ribera, St. Teresa's first biographer,
 80  Intr,   0     |           initiative and imagination of St. Teresa, who, we know (for
 81  Intr,   0     | eighteenth-century editor and critic of St. John of the Cross,53 took
 82  Intr,   0(53) |                                         St. John of the Cross, I, liv
 83  Intr,   0     |                 originals of nearly all St. Teresa's principal works
 84  Intr,   0     |              the great esteem shown for St. Teresa and her Reform by
 85  Intr,   0     |             could obtain for him any of St. Teresa's autographs. As
 86  Intr,   0     |            given to these activities by St. John of the Cross, who,
 87  Intr,   0(57) |                                         St. John of the Cross, II,
 88  Intr,   0     |                                         St. John of the Cross was in
 89  Intr,   0     |            punctuation -- and, owing to St. Teresa's often compressed
 90  Intr,   0     |               increasing circulation of St. Teresa's works, however,
 91  Intr,   0     |               the continuity with which St. Teresa was read even during
 92  Intr,   0     |               their researches, both on St. Teresa and on St. John
 93  Intr,   0     |               both on St. Teresa and on St. John of the Cross, remained
 94  Intr,   0     |               of the quatercentenary of St. Teresa's birth, appeared
 95  Intr,   0     |                an intimate knowledge of St. Teresa's life.]~
 96  Intr,   0     |             continuous popularity which St. Teresa has enjoyed in her
 97  Intr,   0     |                 than any others to give St. Teresa a place in our spiritual
 98  Intr,   0(58) |              picture of the seraphicall St. Teresa").]~
 99  Intr,   0     |                in which he has arranged St. Teresa's works, begs leave
100  Intr,   0     |             Saint's first foundation -- St. Joseph's, Avila -- and
101  Intr,   0     |          ascetic and mystical system of St. Teresa. As closely connected
102  Intr,   0     |               God, the two loveliest of St. Teresa's opuscules, both
103  Intr,   0     |                  as it is in verse that St. Teresa is least noteworthy.~
104  Unic,   1(59) |                                         St. Teresa's father, Don Alonso
105  Unic,   2(68) |                   The word honra, which St. Teresa uses in various
106  Unic,   2(68) |           context -- i.e., of a girl of St. Teresa's age, living in
107  Unic,   2(71) |                                         St. Teresa's reference to this
108  Unic,   2(71) |                 footnote inferring that St. Teresa had "listened only
109  Unic,   2(71) |               than one which represents St. Teresa as predicting her
110  Unic,   3(72) |                                         St. Matthew xx, 16.~
111  Unic,   3(73) |             Incarnation at Avila, where St. Teresa afterwards professed.~
112  Unic,   4(80) |             take the meaning to be that St. Teresa went to stay with
113  Unic,   4(80) |                 of a consultation, that St. Teresa was accompanied
114  Unic,   4(81) |        Discalced Carmelite community of St. Joseph, at Avila, still
115  Unic,   4(82) |                                         St. Teresa must have been mistaken.
116  Unic,   5     |                 of Job in the Morals of St. Gregory,86 for the Lord
117  Unic,   5(86) |                   The Discalced nuns of St. Joseph's, Avila, have an
118  Unic,   5(86) |               Avila, have an edition of St. Gregory's Morals, in two
119  Unic,   5(86) |                 were read and marked by St. Teresa. Both in these volumes,
120  Unic,   7(98) |          metaphor, hacerse espaldas, is St. Teresa's.]~
121  Unic,   8(100)|             sufficiently comprehensive. St. Teresa is referring to
122  Unic,   9(103)|           Mascare-as, a great friend of St. Teresa (cf. Foundations,
123  Unic,  10(105)|                 of the first edition of St. Teresa's works, were "Master
124  Unic,  11(108)|                 of the first edition of St. Teresa's works referred
125  Unic,  11(109)|                twenty-second epistle of St. Jerome "Ad Eustochium",
126  Unic,  13(113)|         attributing Our Lord's words in St. Matthew xix, 26 to St.
127  Unic,  13(113)|               in St. Matthew xix, 26 to St. Paul.]~
128  Unic,  13(115)|                                         St. Matthew xiv, 29.~
129  Unic,  13(116)|                the three must have been St. Teresa's father.]~
130  Unic,  13(117)|                 between the writings of St. Teresa and St. John of
131  Unic,  13(117)|              writings of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross for more
132  Unic,  13(117)|                by aught that is human" (St. John of the Cross, III,
133  Unic,  14(119)|                                     Cf. St. John of the Cross: Spiritual
134  Unic,  14(121)|                                   I.e., St. Joseph's, Avila.~
135  Unic,  14(122)|                particularly appealed to St. Teresa: she often lays
136  Unic,  15(125)|                                         St. Matthew xvii, 4.~
137  Unic,  15(127)|           writer as often inaccurate as St. Teresa. Lewis, p. 122,
138  Unic,  15(128)|                                         St. Matthew xvi, 24.~
139  Unic,  16(130)|                                         St. Luke xv, 9.~
140  Unic,  16(132)|                 person", as so often in St. Teresa, was the author
141  Unic,  16(137)|              spread as far as Avila and St. Teresa had herself come
142  Unic,  17(139)|             seems wholly in accord with St. Teresa's realistic way
143  Unic,  18(142)|               be familiar to readers of St. John of the Cross ("Break
144  Unic,  18(142)|                 of Love, Stanza I): cf. St. John of the Cross, III,
145  Unic,  18(143)|                this verb, often used by St. Teresa, is the contrary
146  Unic,  20(150)|              margin of the autograph in St. Teresa's hand.~
147  Unic,  20(151)|              says that this happened at St. Joseph's, Avila, "about
148  Unic,  20(153)|                alone on the housetop." [St. Teresa's spelling of Latin
149  Unic,  20(159)|                                         St. Vincent Ferrer: De Via
150  Unic,  20(159)|              raptus, sicut rabiamenta." St. Teresa could have read
151  Unic,  20(159)|                 Foligno and the Rule of St. Clare.~
152  Unic,  20(161)|                                     Cf. St. John of the Cross, I, 25: "
153  Unic,  20(164)|                                     Cf. St. John of the Cross, I, 62,
154  Unic,  21(166)|               thirteenth century and in St. Teresa's day was no longer
155  Unic,  22(169)|                              Presumably St. John xvi, 7-14 is meant.
156  Unic,  22(171)|                 idea, very prevalent in St. Teresa's time, that at
157  Unic,  22(171)|            later Spanish mystics follow St. Teresa here and many specifically
158  Unic,  22(172)|               is a marginal addition in St. Teresa's hand.~
159  Unic,  22(175)|                                         St. Luke v, 8.~
160  Unic,  22(176)|                                         St. Luke xvii, 10.]~
161  Unic,  23(181)|            Jesus founded the College of St. Giles (San Gil) at Avila,
162  Unic,  23(181)|              Avila, to which foundation St. Teresa owed a great deal
163  Unic,  23(184)|            priest who for some time was St. Teresa's confessor and
164  Unic,  23(184)|             deal with the foundation of St. Joseph's. He died in 1592.~
165  Unic,  23(185)|                 of Don Pedro de Cepeda, St. Teresa's uncle (cf. n.
166  Unic,  23(185)|                the Dominican College of St. Thomas, in Avila, and after
167  Unic,  23(190)|               Juan de Pr‡danos, who was St. Teresa's confessor for
168  Unic,  24(194)|                                         St. Francis Borgia [Sp., Borja]
169  Unic,  24(194)|               he visited the College of St. Giles at Avila. The visit
170  Unic,  24(194)|                made the acquaintance of St. Teresa took place in 1557.
171  Unic,  24(195)|              life of virtue, and helped St. Teresa, whom she first
172  Unic,  24(195)|               the Discalced Reform. Cf. St. Teresa's testimony to her
173  Unic,  24(195)|              December 31, 1561 (Letters St. , I, 4), where she describes
174  Unic,  24(196)|               one of the best directors St. Teresa ever had, though
175  Unic,  25(202)|                 the miracle recorded in St. Matthew viii, 23-7, St.
176  Unic,  25(202)|                 St. Matthew viii, 23-7, St. Mark iv, 35-40 and St.
177  Unic,  25(202)|                  St. Mark iv, 35-40 and St. Luke viii, 22-5.]~
178  Unic,  25(203)|                An apparent reference to St. Matthew x, 28.]~
179  Unic,  25(204)|                                 Clearly St. Teresa has here in mind
180  Unic,  25(204)|                 Teresa has here in mind St. John viii, 44.]~
181  Unic,  27(211)|                that afterwards begun by St. Teresa. Cf. Ch. XXVII,
182  Unic,  27(212)|                 book might have been in St. Teresa's mind.~
183  Unic,  27(214)|                                         St. Luke xxiii, 26, 28.]~
184  Unic,  27(215)|              ungrammatical sentences in St. Teresa. One can only guess
185  Unic,  27(216)|                                         St. Peter of Alc‡ntara died
186  Unic,  27(218)|            charity in Avila and to whom St. Teresa alludes by name
187  Unic,  28(223)|             years of age when he became St. Teresa's director, it is
188  Unic,  29(225)|              227), this would mean that St. Teresa was writing this
189  Unic,  29(227)|                30: the Commemoration of St. Paul) and not on January
190  Unic,  29(228)|                cross was later given by St. Teresa's sister Juana to
191  Unic,  29(231)|                                         St. Teresa wrote "Cherubims",
192  Unic,  29(232)|         Carmelite tradition has it that St. Teresa received the same
193  Unic,  30(237)|                  timorous", "timid" but St. Teresa's use of "and",
194  Unic,  30(241)|                                         St. John iv, 15 "Sir, give
195  Unic,  31(244)|             many others in the Life) of St. Teresa's inconsequent way
196  Unic,  31(246)|                probably to a stay which St. Teresa made with her younger
197  Unic,  31(246)|        connected with the foundation of St Joseph's, in August 1561.~
198  Unic,  32(254)|                 Cruz y Ocampo, who were St. Teresa's cousins. She herself
199  Unic,  32(255)|                a more penitential life. St. Teresa then said they ought
200  Unic,  32(256)|               reading seems to me "he" (St. Joseph). Sixteenth-century
201  Unic,  32(259)|                 one occasion, she says, St. Teresa and her sister Do-a
202  Unic,  32(259)|                went to hear a sermon at St. Thomas's and to Do-a Juana'
203  Unic,  32(259)|           turned indignantly to see how St. Teresa was taking it, she
204  Unic,  33(266)|                  at about the time when St. Teresa was completing this
205  Unic,  33(267)|          Dionisio V‡zquez, confessor of St. Francis Borgia and famous
206  Unic,  33(267)|       Disagreements which arose between St. Giles' College and Don
207  Unic,  33(267)|               in 1562: he had gone when St. Teresa returned from her
208  Unic,  33(269)|                      The benefactor was St. Teresa's brother Lorenzo,
209  Unic,  33(270)|                        The house, which St. Teresa bought through the
210  Unic,  33(273)|                 the Dominican church of St. Thomas, Avila.~
211  Unic,  33(274)|               He was greatly devoted to St. Teresa and a strong supporter
212  Unic,  34(277)|            founded at Toledo in 1558 by St. Francis Borgia. Its first
213  Unic,  34(277)|            Pedro Domenech, later became St. Teresa's confessor.~
214  Unic,  34(279)|                       Ribera, Yepes and St. Teresa's early biographers
215  Unic,  34(279)|                returning shortly before St. Teresa's death.~
216  Unic,  34(280)|                 monastery, dedicated to St. Peter Martyr, was in fact
217  Unic,  34(283)|          editors have followed him. But St. Teresa felt that the joint
218  Unic,  34(284)|                                Probably St. Peter of Alc‡ntara (d.
219  Unic,  34(287)|          Silverio reads "he", as though St. Teresa could have learned
220  Unic,  34(291)|                                    Thus St. Teresa in the autograph;
221  Unic,  35(296)|               then that she came to see St. Teresa, as described in
222  Unic,  35(300)|              equivalent in the Order of St. Dominic to that of Licentiate [
223  Unic,  35(301)|            Angel de Salazar. He ordered St. Teresa to return from Toledo
224  Unic,  35(305)|                                         St. Matthew vii, 14.~
225  Unic,  36(307)|                  as it was he with whom St. Peter of Alc‡ntara usually
226  Unic,  36(308)|                 certainly was not. When St. Peter of Alc‡ntara reached
227  Unic,  36(308)|                 back to Avila and visit St. Teresa at the Incarnation,
228  Unic,  36(309)|               had come to Toledo, while St. Teresa was there, to inform
229  Unic,  36(309)|                these circumstances that St. Teresa was allowed to go
230  Unic,  36(311)|              ritu Santo), a penitent of St. Peter of Alc‡ntara; Mar'
231  Unic,  36(311)|               whose house she first met St. Teresa; Ursula de Revilla (
232  Unic,  36(311)|                 to give them the habit. St. Teresa was present, with
233  Unic,  36(311)|            celebrates a solemn Mass, at St. Joseph's, yearly, on St.
234  Unic,  36(311)|                St. Joseph's, yearly, on St. Bartholomew's Day, and
235  Unic,  36(312)|                Professions belonging to St. Joseph's, nevertheless,
236  Unic,  36(316)|                 de Avila's biography of St. Teresa: I do not reproduce
237  Unic,  36(316)|               do not reproduce this, as St. Teresa's own narrative
238  Unic,  36(320)|           October 18, 1562, the date of St. Peter's death.]~
239  Unic,  36(321)|                               Marchese, St. Peter of Alc‡ntara's biographer,
240  Unic,  36(321)|               the opposition with which St. Teresa was meeting and
241  Unic,  36(325)|                de Cepeda to transfer to St. Joseph's. The Nuncio's
242  Unic,  36(325)|           patent, as far as it affected St. Teresa, was dated August
243  Unic,  36(325)|                  Vol. III, p. xxi) that St. Teresa was living at St.
244  Unic,  36(325)|                St. Teresa was living at St. Joseph's in December 1562 [
245  Unic,  36(325)|              earliest extant records at St. Joseph's give no help,
246  Unic,  36(327)|           became impossible and in 1567 St. Teresa had to visit it
247  Unic,  36(327)|                 Constitution as that of St. Joseph's. This Alcal‡ convent,
248  Unic,  36(329)|                                   Later St. Teresa increased this number,
249  Unic,  36(329)|                 whom there were none at St. Joseph's when it was founded.
250  Unic,  37(331)|           raptures, but, as so often in St. Teresa, the true sense
251  Unic,  37(333)|                                I.e., to St. Joseph's.~
252  Unic,  37(334)|                                  Unless St. Teresa were mistaken about
253  Unic,  38(337)|               the primitive Carmelites, St. Teresa had a number of
254  Unic,  38(337)|            number of hermitages made at St. Joseph's, Avila and her
255  Unic,  38(337)|               of these in the garden of St. Joseph's and one within
256  Unic,  38(338)|               is one of the books which St. Teresa recommends to her
257  Unic,  38(340)|       conjunction with the reference to St. Teresa's age (see n. 334)
258  Unic,  38(342)|                this is that in Chap. XL St. Teresa says that she does
259  Unic,  38(342)|                next line deletes one to St. Ignatius and his Society.
260  Unic,  38(344)|                written, all the nuns of St. Joseph's were still living.
261  Unic,  39(352)|                                         St. Teresa may be thinking
262  Unic,  39(354)|                                         St. Matthew xx, 10.~
263  Unic,  39(356)|                          The College of St. Giles, Avila.~
264  Unic,  40(357)|                                     Cf. St. Matthew v, 18.~
265  Unic,  40(361)|                 Latin under the name of St. Augustine, and, in Spanish,
266  Unic,  40(362)|                notes, has "the Order of St. Dominic".~
267  Unic,  40(363)|                  refers to the Order of St. Dominic. Ribera agrees
268  Unic,  40(366)|                                         St. Joseph's, Avila.~
269 Lette,   0(370)|            foundation of the convent of St. Joseph, Avila. . . ."