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1 Unic, 21(166)| as much as a cuarto, or 3/100 of a peseta. It had come
2 Unic, 13(116)| as shown in Chap. VII (p. 101), one of the three must
3 Unic, 30(235)| Meditation: S.S.M., II, 106.]~
4 Outl, 0 | stormy sea": L VIII: p. 108). Cf. pp. 78, 117, n. 3.
5 Outl, 0 | VIII: p. 108). Cf. pp. 78, 117, n. 3. First contact with
6 Unic, 27(211)| be found in S.S.M, II, 99-120] had in 1540 initiated a
7 Unic, 15(127)| as St. Teresa. Lewis, p. 122, n., cites three Spanish
8 Unic, 35(297)| by a Brief dated April 6, 1229, forbade the Carmelites
9 Intr, 0(46) | Life, Chap. X (p. 123).~
10 Unic, 36 | Sabina, and given in the year 1248, in the fifth year of the
11 Unic, 4(81) | Alphabet [cf. S.S.M., I,79-131] here referred to.~
12 Pref, 2(22) | Chap. XXV (Vol. III, p. 132 ).~
13 Pref, 2(38) | Chap. XXXII (Vol. II, p. 135).~
14 Pref, 2(4) | Chap. XXXII (Vol. II, p. 138).~
15 Unic, 32(253)| Eugenius IV on February 15, 1432.~
16 Pref, 2(17) | Life, Chap. XIII (p. 145).~
17 Unic, 31(245)| established near Mantes, in 1477, by B. Fran¨oise d'Ambroise.
18 Unic, 4(79) | It had been founded in 1479, as a residence for ladies
19 Unic, 1(61) | fourteen, having been born in 1495, and died in 1528.~
20 Unic, 38(338)| Ambrosio de Montesinos about 1502 under the title Vita Christi
21 Unic, 20(159)| version published at Toledo in 1510, and reprinted five years
22 Unic, 3(77) | published at Valencia, in 1520.~
23 Unic, 12(112)| published at Seville in 1521 and reprinted many times
24 Unic, 35(296)| Jesus. Born at Granada in 1522, she had been left a widow
25 Outl, 0 | Teresa loses her mother.~c. 1531. Enters Augustinian Convent
26 Unic, 4(79) | also evidence in favour of 1533 and 1534.] Cf. Relation
27 Unic, 4(79) | evidence in favour of 1533 and 1534.] Cf. Relation IV (p. 319): "
28 Outl, 0 | Convent of the Incarnation. ~1538 (Autumn: "before two years
29 Outl, 0 | remain till the summer of 1542 (L VI) and recur intermittently (
30 Unic, 7(96) | which disprove Mir's date of 1545 for Don Alonso's death].~
31 Unic, 4(78) | he died in the Indies, in 1546.~
32 Intr, 0(55) | Cf. S.S.M., II, 155-6.]~
33 Unic, 32(258)| Provincial from 1551 to 1553 and again from 1559 to the
34 Outl, 0 | revelations" (R IV).~c. 1556-7. Final "conversion" (after "
35 Pref, 2(18) | Chap. XXXVI (Vol. II, p. 156).~
36 Outl, 0 | Incarnation, Avila (LL 29 ff.).~1572~(Between May and September).
37 Outl, 0 | and breaks her left arm.~1578~(Persecution of the Reform
38 Outl, 0 | Palencia (14) (LL 344).~1581~(March 3. Separation of
39 Outl, 0 | of St. Joseph's, Avila.~1582~January 2. Leaves for Burgos,
40 Intr, 0 | and published at Évora in 1583. At Salamanca, in 1585,
41 Intr, 0 | in 1583. At Salamanca, in 1585, P. Graci‡n (Fray Jer-nimo
42 Intr, 0 | of the General Chapter in 1586 which decided to publish
43 Intr, 0 | published at Salamanca in 1588, and includes the following
44 Unic, 36(327)| jurisdiction of the Order, which in 1599 founded a convent of its
45 Unic, 34(280)| Carmelite convent since 1607, and is not far from the
46 Abbr | Douai Version of the Bible (1609).~Letters. -- Letters of
47 Intr, 0 | in 1604; at Brussels, in 1610; at Valencia, in 1613 and
48 Intr, 0 | in 1610; at Valencia, in 1613 and 1623. The Brussels edition
49 Outl, 0 | Dies at Alba de Tormes.~1614. April 24. Beatified by
50 Outl, 0 | 24. Beatified by Paul V.~1617. Spanish Cortes votes her
51 Unic, 20(151)| little meaning. Lewis (p. 162, n. 6) says "1564 or 1565",
52 Unic, 33(270)| Pastrana, where it was taken in 1634, and now hangs beside the
53 Intr, 0 | single-volume edition, in 1635, and a two-volume edition,
54 Intr, 0 | a two-volume edition, in 1636, came out in Madrid.~
55 Pref, 2(13) | Chap. XXVIII (Vol. III, p. 164).~
56 Intr, 0 | appearing at Antwerp in 1642; while the Life and Foundations
57 Intr, 0 | de Le-n. It was in about 1645 that P. Francisco de Santa
58 Intr, 0 | eventually published in Madrid in 1661.~
59 Intr, 0 | published by Abraham Woodhead in 1669-71, and a third volume,
60 Intr, 0 | remaining works, came out in 1675. After this nearly two centuries
61 Unic, 29(232)| Clement XII on December 11, 1733.~
62 Intr, 0 | in 1778, an edition of 1752, adding to it a volume containing
63 Intr, 0 | was content to reprint, in 1778, an edition of 1752, adding
64 Unic, 19(146)| Deshacerse. Cf. p. 179, n. 4.]~
65 Intr, 0 | unpublished letters. In 1793 appeared another edition,
66 Outl, 0 | Cf. F XXX, Vol. III, p. 180, n.3.)~August 16. Leaves
67 Unic, 37(334)| writer as Nœ-ez de Arce (1832-1903) for long believed
68 Unic, 29(228)| religious persecutions of 1835.~
69 Unic, 36(319)| Gaspar Daza (see n. 184).~
70 Intr, 0 | perfection and Interior Castle (1852), Foundations (1853) and
71 Unic, 33(270)| convent was restored in 1868 to Avila from Pastrana,
72 Unic, 22(173)| Lewis (p. 187, n. 5) supposes this to
73 Intr, 0 | 1870) and Foundations (1871) in the translation of David
74 Intr, 0 | later six volume edition of 1881, and find in it faults of
75 Unic, 22(173)| Juan de Pr‡danos: cf. n. 190.]~
76 Unic, 37(334)| writer as Nœ-ez de Arce (1832-1903) for long believed himself
77 Abbr | Jaime Pons. Barcelona, 1908.~S.S.M.-E. Allison Peers:
78 Outl, 0 | end of June": Vol. III, p. 191, n. 2).~July 26. Leaves
79 Unic, 36(322)| Teresa de Jesœs, Madrid, 1912, I, 559) suggests that this
80 Abbr | Zimmerman, O.C.D., London, 1916.~P. Silverio. -- Obras de
81 Abbr | Allison Peers. London, 1934-5. 3 vols.~Yepes. -- Diego
82 Pref, 1 | of the Cross, in the year 1935, I had no thought of preparing
83 Pref, 1 | was begun in the summer of 1939, continued throughout the
84 Outl, 0 | P. Yanguas. (Vole II, p. 194.)~(June 22. The Discalced
85 Pref, 4 | the Cross, died in October 1940, only a year or so after
86 Pref, 4 | of Liverpool~August 15, 1943~
87 Outl, 0 | n and of the Reform (LL 195).~October. Violent scenes
88 Pref, 2(*) | Sheed & Ward, New York, 1957.~
89 Outl, 0 | Ana de Toledo chosen (LL 197-8, cf. 205-7).~(November
90 Outl, 0 | the Observance (LL 204, 219, 246-7).~December 4.44 St.
91 Unic, 38(338)| Constitutions (Vol. III, p. 220). It is often referred to
92 Unic, 29(227)| not on January 25 (see n. 225). If this deduction and
93 Unic, 25(205)| finger (dar higas). Cf. n. 226.]~
94 Pref, 2(8) | Vol. III, pp. 229-31.~
95 Pref, 2(20) | p. 151, Vol. II, pp. 68, 234, 291, Vol. III, pp. xxii,
96 Outl, 0 | likelier date is 1560: see pp. 235, 260, 268, 271).~Discussions
97 Outl, 0 | throughout this year: LL 237 ff. St. Teresa is in Avila.)~(
98 Pref, 3(42) | Bible in Life, Chap. XXV (p. 239).~
99 Pref, 2(3) | Life, Chap. XXV (p. 243).~
100 Pref, 2(32) | XXVI, XXIX (p. 140, 380, 244, 273).~
101 Unic, 31(249)| Cf. n. 247. "Reputation" would be a
102 Outl, 0 | of P. Rubeo at Rome: LL 253.)~(October 9. Chapter-General
103 Unic, 13(117)| John of the Cross, III, 256).]~
104 Unic, 38(343)| Gregorio Fern‡ndez (see n. 258), whom we know to have been
105 Outl, 0 | date is 1560: see pp. 235, 260, 268, 271).~Discussions
106 Unic, 33(274)| Don çlvaro de Mendoza (n. 267, above), who had taken possession
107 Unic, 32(259)| related [cf. P. Silverio, I, 270, n.] that the proposed reform
108 Outl, 0 | see pp. 235, 260, 268, 271).~Discussions begin about
109 Outl, 0 | division of the Order: LL 273, 275.) P. Salazar authorizes
110 Unic, 27(210)| vision, see Vol. II, p. 279, n.]~
111 Pref, 2(30) | Life, Chap. XXX (p. 282 ).~
112 Outl, 0 | Archbishop of Évora (LL 285).~November (early). Returns
113 Outl, 0 | I.C. VI, iv: Vol. II, p. 289.) Goes on to Medina and
114 Outl, 0 | a convent in Madrid (LL 294).~July 9. Foundation of
115 Unic, 39(353)| long as its predecessor (n. 306) to reach Avila, these lines
116 Outl, 0 | Villanueva de la Jara (LL 307-8, 313), arriving there
117 Unic, 28(223)| biography: cf. S.S.M., II, 310-13] tells us that he himself
118 Unic, 36(316)| P. Silverio (I, 311, n. 1) gives a long independent
119 Outl, 0 | Villanueva de la Jara (LL 307-8, 313), arriving there February
120 Outl, 0 | Toledo. On March 31 (LL 314) has a paralytic stroke.
121 Unic, 34(278)| in the Relations (cf. pp. 315-16).~
122 Intr, 0(54) | B.Nac. MS. 3180 Adiciones E., Nos. 13, 14.~
123 Outl, 0 | request is not granted (LL 323).~June 7. Though still unwell,
124 Pref, 2(28) | Life, Chap. XXXIV (p. 324).~
125 Outl, 0 | her brother Lorenzo (LL 325-6, 342). Goes (July 6) from
126 Outl, 0 | his business affairs (LL 328). At Segovia, revises the
127 Unic, 6(89) | Pascua florida. Lewis (p. 33) erroneously translates "
128 Unic, 38(340)| St. Teresa's age (see n. 334) it seems to give us almost
129 Outl, 0 | becomes dangerously ill (LL 336).~December 28. Leaves Valladolid
130 Unic, 34(284)| date of this book: cf. n 340.]~
131 Outl, 0 | brother Lorenzo (LL 325-6, 342). Goes (July 6) from Segovia
132 Pref, 2(37) | Life, Chap. XXXVI (p. 343).~
133 Unic, 25(202)| viii, 23-7, St. Mark iv, 35-40 and St. Luke viii, 22-
134 Outl, 0 | Alcal‡ de Henares: cf. LL 350-4. P. Graci‡n appointed
135 Intr, 0(49) | Chap. VII (Vol. III, p. 36, n. 2).~
136 Pref, 2(19) | Life, Chap. XXXVII (p. 360).~
137 Pref, 2(14) | Life, Chap. XXXVIII (p. 361).~
138 Pref, 2(34) | Life, Chap. XXXVIII (p. 362).~
139 Unic, 23(180)| stigmata: cf. S.S.M., I, 37-8].~
140 Pref, 2(9) | God, Chap. II (Vol. II, p. 375).~
141 Outl, 0 | Segovia (August 23-30: LL 376), Villacast'n (September
142 Outl, 0 | Villacast'n (September 4: LL 377).~September 5. Arrives at
143 Outl, 0 | 5. Arrives at Avila (LL 378).~September 10. Elected
144 Pref, 2(32) | XXXVII, XXVI, XXIX (p. 140, 380, 244, 273).~
145 Pref, 2(25) | Vol. III, p. 39.~
146 Outl, 0 | probably 1569. Cf. Vol. II, p. 401.~1570~(? July). Visits Pastrana
147 Unic, 27(218)| once [e.g., Letters, 10, 403], describing her as a saint.~
148 Outl, 0 | days through illness: LL 404) and Palencia (arrives January
149 Unic, 31(245)| Sainte Thˇr¸sa, Vol. I, p. 409) suggest that she had in
150 Unic, 23(187)| be found in S.S.M., II, 41-76.]~
151 Unic, 25(204)| here in mind St. John viii, 44.]~
152 Pref, 3(40) | be found in Vol. III, pp. 445-54 of my edition of the
153 Outl, 0 | Earliest extant letter (LL 45) written by St. Teresa to
154 Pref, 3(40) | found in Vol. III, pp. 445-54 of my edition of the Complete
155 Unic, 36(322)| Jesœs, Madrid, 1912, I, 559) suggests that this was
156 Abbr | Translated by David Lewis. 5th ed., with notes and introductions
157 Unic, 29(232)| none. An earlier year (1559-60) is more usually given.]
158 Unic, 38(343)| Provincial in 1551-3 and 1559-61.~
159 Outl, 0 | Visits Vallodolid (LL 66-70).~1575~February. Travels
160 Intr, 0(57) | John of the Cross, II, 72.]~
161 Outl, 0 | Seville to Philip II (LL 77) on behalf of the plan for
162 Outl, 0 | L VIII: p. 108). Cf. pp. 78, 117, n. 3. First contact
163 Unic, 3(74) | Castellanos de la Ca-ada. Cf. n. 80.~
164 Pref, 2(7) | perfection, Chap. XX (Vol. II, p. 86).~
165 Pref, 2(16) | perfection, Chap. XX (Vol. II, p. 88).~
166 Intr, 0(56) | S.S M., II, 151-89.]~
167 Unic, 20(152)| Envuelto. See n. 90.]~
168 Outl, 0 | till the summer (LL 87, 91).~1576~(From June 1576 to
169 Outl, 0 | her stay in Seville (LL 92).~(March. P. Jer-nimo Tostado
170 Unic, 13(116)| San Josˇ. (B.Nac., MS. 12,936.) [Lewis, however (p. 98,
171 Outl, 0 | at Malag-n on June 11 (LL 95) and stays for at least
172 Outl, 0 | for at least a week (LL 96). Is in Toledo before June
173 Unic, 27(211)| will be found in S.S.M, II, 99-120] had in 1540 initiated
174 Unic, 19 | state by God completely abandons Him, His Majesty will not
175 Unic, 39 | Lord, who does not wholly abase himself for Thy sake?350
176 Unic, 22 | and that, the more a soul abases itself in prayer, the higher
177 Intr, 0 | Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey, and the editions of the
178 Unic, 20(159)| aut contra bonos mores, abhorreas eorum visionem et judicia,
179 Unic, 40 | given me a nature which abhorred lying, yet in many things
180 Unic, 10 | will succeed in thoroughly abhorring and completely detaching
181 Unic, 18 | close to God and that there abides within it such a certainty
182 Unic, 15 | wishes that it could make its abode here.125 It dares not move
183 Unic, 38 | myself, weighed down with abominations, who has gone through life
184 Unic, 2(71) | relations qui semblaient pouvoir aboutir une alliance honorable pour
185 Unic, 22 | little donkeys that draw the above-described waterwheel. Though their
186 Outl, 0 | The Nuncio confirms the above-mentioned patent.~1565~(? December).
187 Intr, 0 | Foundations were published by Abraham Woodhead in 1669-71, and
188 Pref, 3 | perfection. The notes, greatly abridged from those of P. Silverio,
189 Intr, 0 | both in her own country and abroad, her fame is still widespread
190 Unic, 32 | My companion was refused absolution unless she would give up
191 Pref, 2 | elevation"; embebecimiento, "absorption"; and hablas, "locutions" (
192 Unic, 32 | offend the Lord; and that I abstained from certain other faults,
193 Unic, 30 | think of nothing but the absurdities which he presents to it --
194 Unic, 40 | that this soul has been an abyss of lies and an ocean of
195 Unic, 23(183)| Acabarlo conmigo. A stronger rendering,
196 Pref, 1 | In Spain, a well-known Academician asked me when a complete
197 Unic, 37 | comparison with Him seemed acceptable to me or on whom my thoughts
198 Unic, 27(213)| Lit.: "accepter" (acetador), but the context
199 Unic, 31 | than that, but the Lord accepts it: may He be blessed for
200 Pref, 1 | they had not previously had access, there is a good deal in
201 Pref, 1 | position. The only easily accessible versions of the Life and
202 Unic, 27 | blessing. What will be the accidental glory and what the joy of
203 Pref, 2 | did she not thoughtfully accompany them with an "as one might
204 Pref, 1 | lead to fresh discoveries. Accordingly, the work was begun in the
205 Unic, 29 | may be that this is partly accountable for by the temperament.
206 Unic, 31 | place. So often have these accursed creatures tormented me and
207 Unic, 27(213)| Lit.: "accepter" (acetador), but the context suggests
208 Unic, 7 | hardly ever be free from aches and pains, and sometimes
209 Unic, 34 | day. This was a notable achievement, for, as I have said, her
210 Intr, 0 | mainly a record of practical achievements and is related as closely
211 Unic, 36 | comparison, was nothing at all. I acknowledged my fault, as if I had acted
212 Unic, 19 | consumed with shame when it acknowledges Thy wonders. Now it dares
213 Unic, 13 | their needs before Him and acknowledging how right He is not to allow
214 Unic, 6 | for though I make public acknowledgment of my devotion to him, in
215 Pref, 4 | Chief among my acknowledgments are those to P. Silverio
216 Unic, 35 | come and see her again, she acquiesced in it, though with the greatest
217 Intr, 0 | experience, Fray Luis de Le-n acquitted himself remarkably well.
218 | across
219 Unic, 7 | chief ailment was a most acute pain in the back, which
220 Intr, 0 | leave to append a note, adapted from P. Silverio, upon the
221 Pref, 1 | would make it possible to add a good deal, especially
222 Pref, 2 | which St. Teresa was greatly addicted. Some of her repetitions
223 Intr, 0 | often with considerable additions, while undue liberties were
224 Unic, 27 | God teaches the soul, and addresses it without using words,
225 Unic, 36 | is impossible to give an adequate description of what happened
226 Intr, 0 | divisions which she makes and adheres to are those made by nature
227 Intr, 0(54) | B.Nac. MS. 3180 Adiciones E., Nos. 13, 14.~
228 Unic, 11(106)| reprehensible in nuns: elsewhere she adjures her sisters to think (in
229 Unic, 37 | those who toil over the adjustment of such trifles settle them
230 Unic, 36(329)| this number, as well as admitting lay sisters, of whom there
231 Unic, 27 | lived, preaching to, and admonishing, his brethren. When he saw
232 Unic, 4 | on my own indulgence and adornment, and realized that I was
233 Unic, 31 | that either course would be advantageous to me and therefore I must
234 Intr, 0 | Rodrigo composed a book of adventures and fictions on that subject,
235 Unic, 26 | us, there is none of our adversaries who will not wring his hands
236 Pref, 2 | with their feet tied"; his adversary the devil "clapping his
237 Unic, 11 | according as your confessor advises. In all these things it
238 Unic, 30 | which it has heard from afar off. So lukewarm does its
239 Unic, 27 | this holiness he was very affable, though, except when answering
240 Unic, 12 | unless it be something affecting my conscience.~
241 Unic, 25 | When I found that they all affirmed this, but that I myself
242 Unic, 13 | understand spirituality afflict their penitents both in
243 Unic, 29 | power of action. For nothing afforded me satisfaction and I was
244 Unic, 37 | but considered as a real affront; if, as I said, we have
245 Unic, 29 | glorified flesh. Many are the affronts and trials that I have suffered
246 Unic, 29 | very beautiful, his face so aflame that he appeared to be one
247 Unic, 8 | favours which He granted aforetime, and sometimes many more,
248 Unic, 2(71) | between P. Grˇgoire's "Il s'agissait de relations qui semblaient
249 Intr, 0 | them from beginning to end aglow with mystical love.~
250 Unic, 24 | which I did not find very agreeable. But I performed them all,
251 Unic, 15(127)| voluntad). [P. Silverio, while agreeing that voluntad is more logical,
252 Unic, 40(363)| Order of St. Dominic. Ribera agrees here. Yepes (Bk. III, Chap.
253 Unic, 6 | terrible cold fits of quartan ague, from which I still suffered
254 Unic, 7 | His chief ailment was a most acute pain in
255 Unic, 4 | alarmed. I also had many other ailments. I spent my first year,
256 Pref, 3 | already been said. I have aimed at extreme literalness,
257 Unic, 33 | and put all my reasons and aims before my confessor and
258 Unic, 31 | incident, which caused me great alarm. One Trinity Sunday, I was
259 Unic, 19 | the Lord has granted me, albeit I have not served Him but
260 Unic, 27 | the blessed Fray Peter of Alcantara!216 The world is not yet
261 Unic, 25 | soul is experienced and alert, it will see the difference
262 Unic, 39 | person speaking clearly and alertly to someone whom he sees
263 Unic, 34(276)| direct line of descent from Alfonso X.~
264 Unic, 21(166)| Algœn cornado. The cornado was
265 Pref, 2 | than temperament:~Digo en algunas, porque he visto, que cuando
266 Unic, 40 | such great Majesty and how alienated such things are from His
267 Unic, 31 | actually the devil himself alighted on the book, to prevent
268 Unic, 15(127)| Spanish, are sufficiently alike to be confused by a writer
269 Unic, 2(71) | semblaient pouvoir aboutir une alliance honorable pour moi", and
270 Unic, 33 | and I could sometimes make allowances for them; although, as I
271 Unic, 34 | Dominican Father to whom I have alluded281 knew of them and was
272 Unic, 27(218)| Avila and to whom St. Teresa alludes by name more than once [
273 Unic, 28(221)| subsequent to 1559. A further allusion (see n. 227) would indicate
274 Pref, 2 | through and through with an allusive humour which it needs all
275 Unic, 38 | Whenever I approached the altar to communicate, and remembered
276 Intr, 0 | comma is sometimes enough to alter the sense of an entire passage.
277 Unic, 11 | they are ill and make some alteration in their hours of prayer;
278 Unic, 15(126)| Without altering the word "humility", P.
279 Unic, 29 | from the devil even if the alternative were my being cut to pieces.
280 Unic, 20(157)| Quien est‡ de lo alto . . . I give the most obvious
281 Intr, 0 | youth by romances of the Amadis type, should try to produce
282 Unic, 14 | mercies in me that they amaze those who behold them, while
283 Pref, 2 | Where the Spanish gender is ambiguous, "she" is used only if St.
284 Unic, 31(245)| 1477, by B. Fran¨oise d'Ambroise. But there seems no reason
285 Unic, 38(338)| translated into Spanish by Ambrosio de Montesinos about 1502
286 Unic, 24 | confession my soul became so amenable that I thought there could
287 Unic, 23 | some respects I was not amending my life. Gradually and discreetly
288 Unic, 7 | by them I was making some amends for my sins, although my
289 Pref, 1 | appear in English; in the American Southwest, a remote community
290 Unic, 22 | these trials, and be calm amidst aridities, though we may
291 Pref, 2 | arrebatamiento, "transport"; amortecimiento, "swoon"; elevamiento and
292 Intr, 0 | books written by the Saint amounts in all to twelve.48~
293 Pref, 4 | and to the Benedictines of Ampleforth, I tender my most cordial
294 Outl, 0 | Is commanded to write an amplified account of her life. ~1563~(
295 Lette, 0 | and praise Him for ever and-ever. Amen.~
296 Outl, 0 | from the General to leave Andalusia and to go to reside in a
297 Unic, 20(159)| also the life of Blessed Angela de Foligno and the Rule
298 Unic, 13(116)| de San Pablo, Ana de los Angeles and Do-a Mar'a de Cepeda.
299 Pref, 2 | in the world",18 or the animadversions in the Life upon the niceties
300 Unic, 39 | heard something about these animals -- I wondered if they were
301 Unic, 20 | soul seems no longer to animate the body, and thus the natural
302 Unic, 38 | which seems to burn up and annihilate all life's desires; for,
303 Unic, 40(363)| according to Graci‡n's annotation, refers to the Order of
304 Unic, 7 | pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the
305 Abbr | Teresa de Jesœs. Editadas y anotadas por el P. Silverio de Santa
306 Unic, 29 | reassure her and give her answers for those who opposed her.~
307 Unic, 34(287)| and the word "previously" (antes) seem to settle the matter.]~
308 Unic, 22 | illustrates this, as does Saint Anthony of Padua with the Divine
309 | anywhere
310 Unic, 31 | in the direction of the apparition, and it never came back.
311 Intr, 0 | writings which makes so wide an appeal. Her methods of exposition
312 Unic, 14(122)| flowers which particularly appealed to St. Teresa: she often
313 Unic, 36 | without our making any appeals or asking anyone for money,
314 Unic, 27 | things as well. One of his appearances to me took place a year
315 Intr, 0 | London, a second edition appearing at Antwerp in 1642; while
316 Intr, 0 | Teresa's works, begs leave to append a note, adapted from P.
317 Pref, 1 | its editors brought out an appendix to their final volume consisting
318 Lette, 0(370)| P. B‡-ez appends the following note: "This
319 Unic, 17 | have so far satisfied his appetite that he has no need to eat;
320 Unic, 20 | wants not so much as an apple from this orchard. If there
321 Unic, 10 | not make that permission applicable to what I shall say from
322 Unic, 15 | spend their time in making applications of verses from Scripture;
323 Pref, 3 | remark, mutatis mutandis, applies to the Poems.~
324 Unic, 37 | audiences and persons whom they appoint for the purpose of speaking
325 Unic, 33 | this change was by Divine appointment; for, while all these prayers
326 Unic, 25 | how, as may happen, the apprehension can be caused by the understanding
327 Intr, 0 | minor works, with the poems appropriately coming last, as it is in
328 Unic, 10 | whom I send this does not approve of it, he will tear it up,
329 Unic, 36 | they now found themselves approving what previously they had
330 Pref, 2 | understand (them) to be approximate -- they are of no great
331 Unic, 25(197)| locution can be fixed only approximately, between 1555 and 1557.~
332 Pref, 3 | been to give her own words, approximating them as nearly as possible
333 Outl, 0 | Spiritual Alphabet.~1539 (April-July). Undergoes treatment at
334 Unic, 33 | has given him the greatest aptitude.~
335 Unic, 13(116)| however (p. 98, n. 6), aptly remarks that, as shown in
336 Unic, 30 | inscription: "Domine, da mihi aquam."241~
337 Unic, 29 | desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum,229 which I seem to see
338 Pref, 2 | Se-or all' por ayuda de aquel alma y por compana, es mas
339 Outl, 0 | L, R refer to chapters; Arabic numerals after LL, to the
340 Intr, 0 | traditionally associated with Aragon, and from this his work
341 Intr, 0 | dogmatism of tone. This Aragonese editor, though learned and
342 Unic, 37(334)| modern a writer as Nœ-ez de Arce (1832-1903) for long believed
343 Unic, 17(139)| gastadura, a presumedly archaic substantive from gastar (
344 Intr, 0 | of Carmel. As many of the archives which the two Fathers used
345 Unic, 15 | the flames of that most ardent love of God with which His
346 Unic, 32 | Majesty had given my soul this ardour to enable me to digest other
347 Unic, 36(321)| statement. Daza had been to Arenas to visit him a few days
348 Unic, 29 | strength. I did not dare to argue with my critics, because
349 Unic, 34(276)| de la Cerda, widow of Don Arias Pardo de Saavedra, who died
350 Outl, 0 | Tostado arrives in Spain armed with powers from P. Rubeo
351 Unic, 2 | damaging my reputation and arousing suspicions in my father.
352 Unic, 28 | those who condemned and arraigned me were doing Him service
353 Unic, 33 | must make all the necessary arrangements. I did so, though I had
354 Pref, 2 | normally translated "rapture"; arrebatamiento, "transport"; amortecimiento, "
355 Unic, 9 | moved by love. But those who arrive thus far will do so only
356 Pref, 2 | specifically mystical passages, arrobamiento is normally translated "
357 Unic, 35(300)| English, to Bachelor of Arts, Divinity, etc.].~
358 Unic, 22 | I mean, after He had ascended into Heaven. But it seems
359 Unic, 22 | encouraging others, ere He ascends to the Heavens. In the Most
360 Unic, 13 | needs counsel to help him ascertain what benefits him most.
361 Unic, 11 | observed so that it may be ascertained if this is the true reason:
362 Intr, 0 | even be said to separate asceticism from mysticism: the Way
363 Unic, 7 | and there are few who look askance at these; but if a single
364 Unic, 38 | two devils of most hideous aspect. Their horns seemed to be
365 Unic, 30 | and reprove me with such asperity that, when I spoke to them
366 Intr, 0 | profound learning, still less aspired to any kind or degree of
367 Unic, 30 | to me to be like a little ass, feeding and sustaining
368 Unic, 15 | when they see themselves assaulted by temptations and persecutions,
369 Unic, 8 | prevent the devils from assaulting them so that each day they
370 Unic, 35 | staying299 was of great assistance to me here. Some told me
371 Unic, 21 | it should offend Him, and assisting and awakening it to serve
372 Unic, 25 | understanding is darkened, he gaily assists him to become completely
373 Intr, 0 | stubbornness traditionally associated with Aragon, and from this
374 Unic, 2(71) | mature) age, the writer assumed that she would soon marry
375 Unic, 1 | It used to cause us great astonishment when we were told that both
376 Unic, 23 | humility he has shown me is astounding; for he has practised prayer,
377 Unic, 34 | time he speaks to me, he astounds me. If I had not seen it
378 Unic, 37 | consolation to which I can attach the slightest esteem by
379 Unic, 31 | trifling things, to which God attaches importance because they
380 Unic, 25 | terrorized by contracting other attachments -- to honours, for example,
381 Unic, 27 | joy so far above all joys attainable on earth that it fills us
382 Unic, 17 | effective preparation for attainment to a very restful state
383 Unic, 28 | four times, I think, he has attempted to present the Lord Himself
384 Unic, 15 | nature of this love with its attendant joy. This quiet and recollection --
385 Unic, 27 | the process, because he is attending to what they are saying.
386 Unic, 27 | makes the understanding attentive, even against its will,
387 Unic, 31 | I have observed it most attentively. It is, let us say, as if
388 Unic, 19 | everything: one kind of water attracts another.~
389 Unic, 38(342)| suppressions are more probably attributable to the strained relations
390 Unic, 13(113)| 13, unless the author is attributing Our Lord's words in St.
391 Unic, 37 | required to obtain us an audience of Thee. We have only to
392 Unic, 37 | lords have fixed hours for audiences and persons whom they appoint
393 Pref, 4 | these, to my colleague Miss Audrey Lumsden, to the Carmelite
394 Unic, 13(117)| heart may be detained by aught that is human" (St. John
395 Abbr | Teresa de Jesœs. Nueva ed. aumentada, con introducci-n, etc.,
396 Pref, 2 | of Christ or of a saint:~Aun ya el Se-or, cuando habla,
397 Unic, 16(137)| under the leadership of Dr. Aust'n Cazalla, a Canon of Salamanca
398 Unic, 36(327)| went to such lengths in the austerities which she imposed that life
399 Unic, 35 | past, to endure the same austerity and penance as all the rest.~
400 Unic, 20(159)| contra Scripturam sacram, aut contra bonos mores, abhorreas
401 Pref, 2 | as these we can hear the authentic and virile note of a saint
402 Unic, 33 | principle quite definitely and authoritatively approved by the Holy Father --
403 Outl, 0(44) | Some authorities believe that, between December
404 Intr, 0 | soon destroyed by its own authors, either because of the nature
405 Unic, 10 | I can, in order that my authorship may not be recognized. This
406 Unic, 16(137)| an end in 1559, when an auto was held which involved
407 Intr, 0 | known as the "Biblioteca de Autores Espa-oles."~
408 Pref, 2 | most frequent exclamations, ÁV‡lgame Dios!, which can express
409 Unic, 38 | this for the space of an Ava Mar'a. But my soul was in
410 Unic, 24 | began to obey, how little it availed her to resist the favours
411 Unic, 20 | against the Lord's will avails very little, for no power
412 Intr, 0 | property of Do-a Isabel de Avellaneda, wife of Don I-igo de C‡
413 Unic, 13 | experience, they are not averse from spirituality, nor are
414 Unic, 2 | much wrongdoing would be avoided if we realized that our
415 Unic, 30 | danger. Just so the soul, in avoiding giving offence to God, seems
416 Intr, 0 | Silverio seldom for long avoids. A welcome feature was the
417 Pref, 3 | minimum.39 One need not remind avowed Teresians, but it may be
418 Intr, 0 | and of the wonders which await it on the mountain's summit.~
419 Unic, 32 | which was driving me to so awful a place? Blessed be Thou,
420 Pref, 2 | le pone el Se-or all' por ayuda de aquel alma y por compana,
421 Unic, 27(218)| was his penitent Mar'a D'az, a well-to-do woman of great
422 Unic, 36(317)| this opinion. Fr. Domingo Ba-es. And I sign this on May
423 Unic, 35(300)| Licentiate [in English, to Bachelor of Arts, Divinity, etc.].~
424 Unic, 19 | by trials, persecutions, backbitings and infirmities (for few
425 Unic, 6 | people could turn their backs to me and yet be quite safe;
426 Unic, 39 | of Him was granted me. He bade me, too, consider the love
427 Pref, 2 | her books are continually baffled when asked the precise meaning
428 Unic, 4 | and the book acted like a bait to my soul. Often the mere
429 Unic, 34(291)| in the autograph; but P. Banez emended the phrase so that
430 Unic, 29 | neither call them up nor banish them by our own efforts.
431 Unic, 1(62) | fighting the Indians on the banks of the Rio de la Plata.
432 Unic, 38 | Fathers in Heaven with white banners in their hands, and, as
433 Unic, 32 | members of the Church through baptism. It also inspired me with
434 Unic, 35 | sold all she had and walked barefoot to Rome to obtain the necessary
435 Unic, 27 | that what I am saying is barely a fraction of what there
436 Intr, 0 | and a woman into the bargains -- could possibly write
437 Unic, 12 | to act, the soul remains barren and suffers great aridity.
438 Unic, 20(163)| Barro: mud, clay. Often used in
439 Unic, 30 | satisfaction from realizing my own baseness. At other times I find myself
440 Unic, 31 | upon a thousand souls of baser texture there will not be
441 Unic, 35 | poverty was the soundest basis for a foundation. I had
442 Unic, 39(352)| other young girls -- Mar'a Bautista, Mar'a de San Jer-nimo and
443 Unic, 39 | bird might carry in its beak, and which we cannot consider
444 Unic, 37 | from me, the love that Thou bearest me is such that Thou wouldst
445 Unic, 39 | me to be held up by some beasts; I think I have heard something
446 Unic, 20 | my pulses almost cease to beat, my bones are all disjointed,
447 Intr, 0 | experience a foretaste of the Beatific Vision of the life to come.
448 Outl, 0 | Tormes.~1614. April 24. Beatified by Paul V.~1617. Spanish
449 Unic, 15 | recollected as the wise little bee, for if no bees entered
450 Unic, 15 | wise little bee, for if no bees entered the hive and they
451 Unic, 25 | we do this, no harm can befall us, although a great deal
452 Unic, 25 | although a great deal has befallen me through these excessive
453 Pref, 2 | address a great lady as befitted her rank and how she "got
454 | beforehand
455 Unic, 20 | mortal though it is, and befouled as is its clay by all the
456 Unic, 22 | which He bears us; for love begets love. And though we may
457 Unic, 31 | makes me speak of such mean beginnings so that those who began
458 Unic, 7 | long as he lived that I behaved as if I felt no grief at
459 Unic, 40 | for them; and that we are behaving in His sight with the greatest
460 Unic, 1 | God, so that they might behead us there; and, even at so
461 Intr, 0 | will be seen, is not now behindhand in her appreciation of a
462 Unic, 22 | while we live as human beings, to have before us Christ'
463 Intr, 0 | upon the shoulders of a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey,
464 Unic, 33(269)| The benefactor was St. Teresa's brother
465 Unic, 23 | souls have been greatly benefited by him: such great talents
466 Unic, 22 | the Divine Infant. Saint Bernard, too, delighted in Christ'
467 Unic, 23(187)| Franciscan lay-brother, Bernardino de Laredo. An account of
468 Unic, 19 | owes Thee. Now it devoutly beseeches the Queen of Heaven to propitiate
469 Unic, 15 | quite overwhelms us. The bestowal upon us of this knowledge
470 Unic, 8 | habits, I did not at once betake myself to prayer; and whenever
471 Unic, 33(270)| to the "little porch of Bethlehem" (cf. Foundations: Vol.
472 Unic, 35 | convinced me; but, when I betook myself to prayer again and
473 Unic, 4 | which I made it and the betrothal that I contracted with Thee,
474 Pref, 1 | could certainly be greatly bettered. The Stanbrook Benedictines'
475 Unic, 5 | loyalty to God! This is a bewildering folly common in the world
476 Unic, 5 | the world and it certainly bewilders me. For we owe to God all
477 Pref, 3 | so completely immersed in Biblical phraseology42 that it is
478 Intr, 0 | Spanish classics known as the "Biblioteca de Autores Espa-oles."~
479 Unic, 13 | Passion -- let us say upon the binding of the Lord to the Column.
480 Unic, 14 | love now means to us! It binds our own love so straitly
481 Pref, 3 | all the works -- that no biographical introduction has seemed
482 Intr, 0 | author of one of the earliest biographies of St. John of the Cross,
483 Unic, 40 | serving Him by accepting a bishopric.364 And after Communion
484 Unic, 31 | something but was the slightest bit in doubt about it; and my
485 Unic, 6 | experienced. My tongue was bitten to pieces; nothing had passed
486 Unic, 36(307)| generally supposed, but Don Juan Bl‡zquez, father of the Count
487 Unic, 32 | and everything was in the blackest darkness. I do not understand
488 Unic, 2 | very good -- completely blameless in their lives, devoted
489 Unic, 28 | account when he was in no way blameworthy.~
490 Unic, 37 | the paper has to be left blank, and in another case, another
491 Unic, 25 | are merely frail flowerets blasted at the first breath of persecution:
492 Unic, 25 | to command the winds that blew over the sea to be still,
493 Unic, 30 | its eyes seem to be almost blindfolded: it is like someone who
494 Unic, 23 | great sins God might be blinding me so that I could not realize
495 Pref, 2 | Another stumbling block is repetition, a practice
496 Unic, 19 | attempts that I have made to blot out the favours Thou hast
497 Unic, 4 | be blind to them and He blots them from their memory.
498 Unic, 37 | driving itself crazy with blowing on the fire and rearranging
499 Intr, 0 | degree, had the temperamental bluntness and stubbornness traditionally
500 Outl, 0 | Mary of Grace, Avila, as a boarder. Stays there for eighteen
501 Unic, 2(69) | girls from good families as boarders.~