39: St. Teresa wrote no title, either of the whole book or of the Preface, but only the monogram J.H.[...] 40: "El Señor" is everywhere translated by "God" in distinction to "Nuestro Señor," "Our Lord." [...] 41: "In an excellent manner," scored through by the Saint herself. 42: "To be read with great care, as it is explained in a most delicate way, and contains many notewor[...] 43: "This is most admirable," scored through by the Saint. 44: "Una cifra," a mere nothing.
45: Fr. Anton. a St. Joseph, in his note on letter 16, but letter 41, vol. iv. ed. Doblado. 46: Reforma de los Descalços. lib. i. ch. vii. § 3. 47: Ch. iii. § 2. 48: Ch. iii. § 9. 49: Ch. i. § 3. 50: Ch. xxiii. § 2. 51: Ch. xxiii. § 8. 52: Id. § 12. 53: Ch. xxiv. § 1. 54: Id. § 4. 55: Ch. xxix. § 4. 56: Ch. xxxiii. § 6. 57: The Saint held him in great reverence, and in one of her letters—lett. 355, but lett. 100, vol.[...] 58: See Life, ch. xxix. § 6. 59: Rel. vii. § 9. 60: Reforma de los Descalços, lib. ii. c. xxviii. § 6. 61: Introduccion al libro de la Vida, vol. i. p. 3. 62: Jerome Gratian, Lucidario, c. iv. 63: Life, ch. xxxvi. § 15. 64: The Saint says of herself, Rel. vii. § 18, that "she took the greatest pains not to submit the s[...] 65: Rel. vii. § 16. 66: "Como hombre criado toda mi vida en leer y disputar" (De la Fuente, ii. p. 376). 67: 2 Cor. xi. 14: "Ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis." 68: The other theologian appointed by the Inquisition, with Fra Bañes, to examine the "Life." 69: This took place in the year 1580, according to the Chronicler of the Order (Reforma de los DescalÃ[...] 70: Reforma de los Descalços, lib. v. c. xxxiv. § 4: "Relaciones de su espiritu." 71: Rel. ii. § 18.
72: In the same year St. Philip was born in Florence. St. Teresa died in 1582, and St. Philip in 1595[...] 73: This must be an error. See ch. i. § 7, note 7. 74: There is a difficulty about this. The Bollandists maintain that she went to the monastery of the [...] 75: Ch. vii. § 11, see note there. 76:  Ch. ix. § 1. 77: Ch. xxiv. § 7. 78: Ch. xxxii. § 1. 79: Ch. xxix. § 17. 80: Ch. xxvii. § 3, ch. xxviii. § 2. 81: Ch. xxxiii. § 13. 82: Ch. xxxv. § 14, note. 83: Ch. xxxiv. § 24.
85: See ch. xxxvii. § 1; where the Saint says that she saw them in a vision both in Heaven. 86: Alfonso Sanchez de Cepeda, father of the Saint, married first Catalina del Peso y Henao, and had [...] 87: Rodrigo de Cepeda, four years older than the Saint, entered the army, and, serving in South Ameri[...] 88: The Bollandists incline to believe that St. Teresa may not have intended to quit Spain, because a[...] 89: The two children set out on their strange journey—one of them seven, the other eleven, years ol[...] 90: She was also marvellously touched by the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, of whom there [...] 91: The last will and testament of Doña Beatriz de Ahumada was made November 24, 1528 and she may ha[...] 92: Our Lady of Charity, in the church of the hospital where the poor and pilgrims were received in A[...]
93: The Saint throughout her life was extremely careful of cleanliness. In one of her letters to Fath[...] 94: Maria de Cepeda, half-sister of the Saint. She was married to Don Martin de Guzman y Barrientos; [...] 95: The Augustinian Monastery of Our Lady of Grace. It was founded in 1509 by the venerable Fra Juan [...] 96: Some have said that the Saint at this time intended, or wished, to be married; and Father Bouix t[...] 97: Doña Maria Brizeño, mistress of the secular children who were educated in the monastery (Reform[...]
98: St. Matt. xx. 16: "Multi enim sunt vocati, pauci vero electi." 99: Juana Suarez, in the Monastery of the incarnation, Avila (Reforma, lib. i. ch. vii. § 7). 100: Maria de Cepeda, married to Don Martin Guzman y Barrientos. They lived in Castellanos de la Caña[...] 101: Don Pedro Sanchez de Cepeda. He lived in Hortigosa, four leagues from Avila (De la Fuente).
102: Antonio de Ahumada; who, according to the most probable opinion, entered the Dominican monastery [...] 103: Juana Suarez, in the Monastery of the Incarnation, Avila. 104: See Relation, vi. § 3. 105: The nuns sent word to the father of his child's escape, and of her desire to become a nun, but wi[...] 106: The Saint entered the Monastery of the Incarnation Nov. 2, 1533, and made her profession Nov. 3, [...] 107: Her father took her from the monastery in the autumn of 1535, according to the Bollandists, but o[...] 108: It was in 1563 that all nuns were compelled to observe enclosure (De la Fuente). 109: Ch. v. § 15. 110: Ch. iii. § 4. 111: Ch. iii. § 5. 112: By Fray Francisco de Osuna, of the Order of St. Francis (Reforma, lib. i. ch. xi. § 2). 113: See ch. ix. §§ 4, 7.
114: Ch. iv. § 6. The person to whom she was taken was a woman famous for certain cures she had wroug[...] 115: Schram, Theolog. Mystic., § 483. "Magni doctores scholastici, si non sint spirituales, vel omni [...] 116: See Way of Perfection, ch. viii. § 2; but ch. v. Dalton's edition. 117: F. Vicente Barron (Bouix). 118: See ch. xxiii. 119: § 6. 120: § 9. 121: Ch. iv. § 6. 122: Job ii. 10: "Si bona suscepimus de manu Dei, mala quare non suscipiamus?" 123: Some of the nuns of the Incarnation were in the house, sent thither from the monastery; and, but [...] 124: Ribera, lib. i. ch. iv., says he heard Fra Bañes, in a sermon, say that the Saint told him she ha[...]
125: March 25, 1537. 126: Ch. v. § 17. The Saint left her monastery in 1535; and in the spring of 1536 went from her siste[...] 127: Of the devotion to St. Joseph, F. Faber (The Blessed Sacrament, bk. ii. p. 199, 3rd ed.) says tha[...] 128: Galat. ii. 20: "Vivo autem, jam non ego; vivit vero in me Christus."
129: See Way of Perfection, ch. xl.; but ch. xxvii. of the former editions. 130: See Relation, i. § 18. 131: A.D. 1537, when the Saint was twenty-two years old (Bouix). This passage, therefore, must he one o[...] 132: See ch. xxvii. § 3. 133: In the parlour of the monastery of the Incarnation, Avila, a painting of this is preserved to thi[...] 134: Ch. vi. § 4. 135: See Inner Fortress, v. iii. § 1. 136: Ch. i. § i. 137: Ch. xix. §§ 9, 17. 138: See § 2, above. 139: See ch. xi. § 23: Inner Fortress, vi. i. § 8. 140: § 16. 141: See Inner Fortress, v. iii. § 1. 142: In 1541, when the Saint was twenty-five years of age (Bouix). 143: F. Vicente Barron (Reforma, lib. i. ch. xv.). 144: See ch. xxxviii. § 1. 145: See ch. xix. § 19. 146: The Spanish editor calls attention to this as a proof of great laxity in those days—that a nun [...] 147: See ch. xiii. §§ 7, 8.
148: Ch. ix. § 10. 149: § 1, above. 150: Ch. vii. § 17; ch. xix. § 8. 151: Ezech. xviii. 21: "Si autem impius egerit poenitentiam, . . . vita vivet, et non morietur. Omnium[...] 152: See ch. x. § 2, and ch. xi. § 22.
153: In the year 1555 (Bouix). 154: See ch. iv. § 10; ch. x. § 1. 155: See Relation, i. § 12. 156: See ch. iv. § 11. 157: Ch. ii. § 8. 158: In the Prologue. 159: § 1. 160: Ch. iv. § 11.
161: The Saint interrupts her history here to enter on the difficult questions of mystical theology, a[...] 162: Ch. ix. § 4. 163: Ch. xxx. §§ 10 and 11. 164: See ch. xiii. § 5. 165: F. Pedro Ybañez, of the Order of St. Dominic. 166: See ch. xxxi. § 17. 167: See ch. xv. § 12. 168: See ch. xiv. § 12. 169: See ch. xxiv. § 5.
170: Ch. x. § 1. 171: 2. Vide St. Bernard, in Cantic. Serm. 30. n. 7, ed. Ben. 172: Ch. xiii. § 23. 173: See ch. xv. § 17. 174: Epist. 22, ad Eustochium: "O quoties ego ipse in eremo constitutus, et in illa vasta solitudine q[...] 175: St. Matt. xx. 22: "Potestis bibere calicem?" 176: St. Matt. xi. 30: "Jugum enim meum suave est." 177: § 18.
178: Arte de servir a Dios, by Rodrigue de Solis, friar of the Augustinian Order (Bouix). Arte para se[...] 179: Ch. xi. §§ 20, 25. 180: That is, he will lose the prayer of acquired quiet, because he voluntarily abandons it before the[...] 181: Ch. iv. § 10. 182: Ch. xxxiv. § 9. 183: Ch. x. § 1. 184: Ch. xvi. § 4. 185: "En un credo." 186: § 5.
187: Ch. xi. § 24. 188: Philipp. iv. 13; "Omnia possum in Eo." 189: Confess. x. ch. 29: "Da quod jubes, et jube quod vis." 190: St. Matt. xiv. 30: "Videns vero ventum validum, timuit." 191: Ch. vii. §§ 27, 31. 192: Ch. vii. § 16. 193: See ch. xxxi. § 7, and ch. xxxix. § 14. 194: Ch. xii. § 3. 195: See St. John of the Cross, Living Flame, pp. 267, 278–284, Engl. trans. 196: See ch. xv. § 20. 197: § 18. 198: Prudence, experience, and learning; see § 24. 199: Dan. xii. 3: "Qui autem docti fuerint, fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti." 200: § 19.
201: 2 Cor. v. 14: "Charitas enim Christi urget nos." 202: See ch. xvii. § 12; Way of Perfection, ch. liii., but xxxi. of the old editions. 203: See Relation, i. § 12. 204: 2 Cor. xi. 14: "Ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis." 205: See ch. x. § 11. As that passage refers probably to the monastery of the Incarnation, this must [...] 206: See ch. xviii. § 10. In the second Report of the Rota, p. 477—quoted by Benedict XIV., De Cano[...] 207: Prov. viii. 31: "Deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum."
208: See Way of Perfection, ch. liii., but ch. xxxii of the old edition. 209: St. Matt. xvii. 4: "Bonum est nos hic esse." 210: See ch. xvii. § 6. 211: Ch. x. § 1. 212: Ch. xiv. §§ 3, 4. 213: Ch. x. § 9. 214: Ch. xviii. § 4, and ch. xxi. § 9. 215: § 3. 216: § 5. 217: Ch. x. § 1. 218: St. Luke xviii. 13: "Nolebat nec oculos ad coelum levare." 219: Ch. xii. § 5. 220: "Firmeza en la verdad." Francisco de St. Thoma, in his Medulla Mystica, p. 204, quoting this pas[...] 221: Ch. xi. § 16. 222: Ch. xiii. § 23. 223: St. Matt. xvi. 24: "Tollat crucem suam et sequatur Me." 224: "Fiel temor." In the previous editions it was filial. 225: Ch. xi. § 1. 226: See ch. xxv.
227: "The third degree, or third water, of the Saint, must begin, I think, with the prayer of infused [...] 228: See St. John of the Cross, Spirit. Canticle, stanza xvii. vol. ii. p. 98, Engl. trans. 229: St. Luke xv. 9: "Convocat amicas et vicinas." 230: Foundations, ch. xxix. § 9. 231: The Saint herself (De la Fuente). 232: This was either F. Ybañez or the Inquisitor Soto, if the expression did not occur in the first L[...] 233: See § 3, above. 234: St. John x. 20: "Daemonium habet et insanit." 235: The Saint refers to the secret meetings of heretics in Valladolid, under the direction of a fallen[...] 236: Father Bañes wrote here on the margin of the Saint's MS, "Legant praedicatores" (De la Fuente). [...]
237: See ch. xix. § 4. 238: Ch. xv. § 1. 239: See Relation, viii. § 6; and Way of Perfection, ch. liii., but ch xxxi. of former editions. See a[...] 240: See Relation, viii. § 17. 241: Ch. xiv. § 4. See also Way of Perfection, ch. liii., but ch. xxxi. of the old editions. 242: Ch. xiv. § 6. 243: § 7.
244: See ch. xi. § 11. 245: Ch. xvi. §§ 7, 8. 246: Ch. xvii. § 5. 247: § 3. 248: See ch. xx. § 10; and Relation, viii. § 10. 249: See ch. xiv. § 12. 250: See Anton. a Sp. Sancto, Director. Mystic. tr. iv. § 9, n. 72. 251: Thomas à Jesu, De Contemplatione Divina, lib. v. c. xiii.: "Quasi dicat: cum intellectus non poss[...] 252: Ch. x. § 1, and ch. xviii. § 16. 253: See Inner Fortress, v. ch. i. § 11.
254: See ch. xx. § 2. 255: See ch. xvii. § 3. 256: Ch. vii. § 17, and ch. viii. § 5. 257: Psalm cxviii. 137: "Thou art just, O Lord, and Thy judgment is right." 258: See ch. xxv. 259: See ch. viii. § 1. 260: Ch. vii. § 17. 261: Ch. vii. § 27. 262: Ch. xxxi. § 21. 263: Ch. xx. § 33, and ch. xxv. § 24. 264: Ch. xix. § 4. 265: See § 16.
266: See Inner Fortress, vi. ch. v.; Philippus a SS. Trinitate, Theolog. Mystic. par. iii. tr. i, disp[...] 267: "She says that rapture is more excellent than union; that is, that the soul in a rapture has a gr[...] 268: Anton. a Spirit. Sancto, Direct. Mystic. tr. 4, d. i. n. 95: "Licet oratio raptus idem sit apud m[...] 269: The words between the dashes are in the handwriting of the Saint—not however, in the text, but [...] 270: See Inner Fortress, vi. ch. v. "Primus effectus orationis ecstaticae est in corpore, quod ita rema[...] 271: This passage could not have been in the first Life; for that was written before she had ever been[...] 272: Job. iv. 15: "Inhorruerunt pili carnis meae." (See St. John of the Cross. Spiritual Canticle, s[...] 273: See ch. xxix. 274: See ch. xx. § 21. 275: § 9, supra. 276: § 10. 277: Psalm ci. 8: "I have watched, and become as a sparrow alone on the house-top." 278: Psalm xli. 4: "Ubi est Deus tuus?" 279: Galat. vi. 14: "In cruce Jesu Christi: per quem mihi mundus crucifixus est, et ego mundo." 280: §§ 9 and 12. 281: Daniel x. 16: "In visione tua dissolutae sunt compages meae." See St. John of the Cross, Spiritu[...] 282: Ch. v. § 18. 283: § 12. 284: The words from "I have just said" to "our Lord" are in the margin of the text, but in the handwri[...] 285: See § 11. 286: See Relation, viii. § 8. 287: Ch. xviii. § 16. 288: Ch. xviii. § 17. 289: Avila. 290: Ch. xxv. § 18. 291: § 9. 292: "Other will . . . Lord's will." These words—in Spanish, "Otra voluntad, sino hacer la de nuestr[...] 293: St. Vincent. Ferrer, Instruct. de Vit. Spirit. c. xiv. p. 14: "Si dicerent tibi aliquid quod sit c[...] 294: Psalm liv. 7: "Quis dabit mihi pennas sicut columbae?" 295: Job iv. 17: "Numquid homo Dei comparatione justificabitur?"
296: Ch. xx. § 30. 297: Ch. xx. § 34. 298: Exod. xxiii. 15: "Non apparebis in conspectu meo vacuus." 299: Apoc. ii. 23: "Dabo unicuique vestrum secundum opera sua." 300: See ch. xxxii. § 1. 301: "Farsa de esta vida tan mal concertada." 302: Inner Fortress, iv. ch. i. § 11. 303: Rom. vii. 24: "Quis me liberabit de corpore mortis hujus?" 304: Ch. xvi. § 7. 305: 1 Cor. ii. 9: "Quae praeparavit Deus his qui diligunt Illum."
306: See Inner Fortress, vi. 7, § 4. 307: This opinion is supposed to be justified by the words of St. Thomas, 3 Sent. dist. 22, qu. 3, art.[...] 308: St. John xvi. 7: "Expedit vobis ut Ego vadam; si enim non abiero, Paracletus non veniet ad vos." [...] 309: This sentence is in the margin of the original MS., not in the text, but in the handwriting of th[...] 310: "I mean by lately . . . and visions" is in the margin of the MS., but in the handwriting of the S[...] 311: Ch. xxviii. § 4. 312: St. Matt. iii. 17: "Hic est Filius Meus dilectus, in quo Mihi complacui." 313: St. John x. 7, 9: "Ego sum ostium." 314: See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. iii. ch. i. p. 212. 315: Ch. xii. §§ 5, 7. 316: Ch. xv. § 21. 317: Ch. xx. § 2. 318: St. Luke v. 8: "Exi a me, quia homo peccator sum, Domine." 319: Ch. xii. § 6. 320: Ch. xxviii. 321: Psalm lxxii. 22: "Et ego ad nihilum redactus sum, et nescivi." 322: Isaias liii 3: "Virum dolorum, et scientem infirmitatem." 323: Ch. xi. § 15. 324: St. Luke xvii. 10: "Servi inutiles sumus." 325: Ch. xi. § 11. 326: St. Luke xiv. 8: "Non discumbas in primo loco." See Way of Perfection, ch. xxvi. § 1; but ch. x[...] 327: Ch. xi. § 23, ch. xviii. § 6. 328: Os. ii. 14: "Ducam eam in solitudinem." 329: St. Matt. xix. 29: "Qui reliquerit domum, . . . centuplum accipiet." 330: Ch. xii. § 5.
331: At the end of ch. ix. The thirteen chapters interposed between that and this—the twenty-thirdâ€[...] 332: She refers to Magdalene of the Cross (Reforma de los Descalços, vol. i. lib. i. c. xix. § 2). [...] 333: The college of the Society at Avila was founded in 1555; but some of the Fathers had come thither[...] 334: Ch. vii. § 37. 335: Ch. xix. §§ 7, 8. 336: Gaspar Daza had formed a society of priests in Avila, and was a very laborious and holy man. It w[...] 337: Don Francisco de Salcedo. After the death of his wife, he became a priest, and was chaplain and c[...] 338: Doña Mencia del Aguila (De la Fuente, in a note on letter 10, vol. ii. p. 9, where he corrects [...] 339: § 4. 340: Subida del Monte Sion, by a Franciscan friar, Bernardino de Laredo (Reforma, vol. i. lib. i. c. [...] 341: § 6. 342: See ch. xxv. § 18. 343: See ch. xxviii. § 18. 344: See Relation, vii. § 17. 345: See ch. iv. § 6. 346: 1 Cor. x. 13: "Fidelis autem Deus est, qui non patietur vos tentari supra id quod potestis." 347: F. Juan de Padranos, whom St. Francis de Borja had sent in 1555, with F. Fernando Alvarez del Agu[...] 348: See Relation, i. § 9.
349: The Saint now treated her body with extreme severity, disciplining herself even unto blood (Refor[...] 350: St. Francis de Borja came to Avila, where St. Teresa lived, in 1557 (De la Fuente). This passage [...] 351: Ch. xxiii. § 6. 352: See Relation, viii. § 6. 353: Who he was is not certainly known. The Bollandists decline to give an opinion: but F. Bouix think[...] 354: Doña Guiomar de Ulloa. See below, ch. xxxii. § 13. 355: If this confessor was F. Baltasar Alvarez, the Saint, F. Bouix observes, passes rapidly over the [...] 356: See Relation, i. § 6.
357: Philip. a SS. Trinitate, Theolog. Mystic. par. 2, tr. iii. disc. iv. art. v.: "Tres sunt modi div[...] 358: From 1555 to 1557, when the Saint was advised by St. Francis de Borja to make no further resistan[...] 359: See ch. xxvii. § 4. 360: § 4. 361: § 5. 362: The doctrine here laid down is not that of the second water,—chs. xiv. and xv.,—but that of t[...] 363: § 6. 364: § 2. 365: Ch. vii. § 12. 366: Ch. xxviii. § 6, ch. xxx. § 10. 367: Ch. vii. § 11. 368: Ch. iv. § 6, ch. v. § 14. 369: It was the church of the Jesuits (Bouix). 370: See Inner Fortress, vi. 3, § 5. 371: St. Matt. viii. 26; "Imperavit ventis et mari, et facta est tranquillitas magna." 372: Ch. xxxi. § 2. 373: St. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, st. 24, p. 128, Eng. trans. 374: St. Matt. x. 26, 28; "Ne ergo timueritis eos, . . . sed potius timete Eum." 375: St. John viii. 44: "Mendax est, et pater ejus."
376: Ch. xxv. § 26. 377: Ch. xv. § 6. 378: Ch. xxxiii.; the foundation of the house of St. Joseph. 379: Ch. xxv. § 23. 380: The Bollandists, n. 185, attribute some of the severity with which her confessor treated the Sain[...] 381: See Relation, vii. § 7. 382: St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. 22, § 14. 383: The visions of the Saint began in 1558 (De la Fuente) or, according to Father Bouix, in 1559. 384: St. Luke xvi. 28: "Ne et ipsi veniant in hunc locum tormentorum."
385: Ch. xxv. § 20. 386: See ch. xxviii. § 5, and ch. xxix. § 1. The vision took place, it seems, on the 29th June. See [...] 387: See ch. vii. § 12. 388: See Anton. a Spiritu Sancto, Direct. Mystic. tr. iii. disp. v. § 3. 389: See Inner Fortress, vi. 8, § 3. 390: § 17, infra. 391: See Relation, vii. § 26. 392: Inner Fortress, vi. 8, § 3. 393: Ch. xxv. § 1. 394: Cant. vi. 4: "Averte oculos tuos a me, quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt." St. John of the Cross, Mo[...] 395: Acts x. 34: "Non est personarum acceptor Deus." 396: St. Luke xxiii. 28: "Filiae Jerusalem, nolite flere super Me, sed super vos ipsas flete." 397: St. Matt. xxvii. 32: "Hunc angariaverunt ut tolleret crucem Ejus." 398: St. John x. 20: "Daemonium habet et insanit: quid Eum auditis?" 399: Sap. v. 4: "Nos insensati vitam illorum aestimabamus insaniam." 400: 18th Oct. 1562. As the Saint finished the first relation of her life in June, 1562, this is one o[...] 401: Ch. xiv. § 7. 402: Ch. xxvi. § 3, ch. xxxii. § 16. 403: Psalm cxxi. The words in the MS. are: "Letatun sun yn is que dita sun miqui" (De la Fuente). 404: See ch. xxx. § 2.
405: Ch. xxvii. § 3. 406: Philipp. a SS. Trinitate, Theolog. Mystic. par. 2, tr. 3, disc. iv., art. 8: "Quamvis in principi[...] 407: See ch. xxix. § 4. 408: "The holy Mother, Teresa of Jesus, had these imaginary visions for many years, seeing our Lord co[...] 409: Anton. a Sp. Sancto, Direct. Mystic. tr. iii. disp. 5, § I, n. 315: "Visio corporea est infima, [...] 410: See ch. xxx. § 18. 411: Ch. xxv. § 18. 412: Ch. xxx. §§ 9, 10. See St. John of the Cross, Obscure Night, bk. ii. ch. 7. 413: Ch. xxvii. § 3. 414: Ch. xxv. § 8. 415: See § 2. 416: § 7, supra. 417: See ch. xxiii. § 14. 418: Ch. xxiv. § 5. 419: There were in Spain, and elsewhere, many women who were hypocrites, or deluded. Among others was [...] 420: Inner Fortress, vi. 1, § 4. 421: Ch. xxvi. § 5; Inner Fortress, vi. 9, § 7. 422: See ch. xxv. § 18. 423: 2 Paralip. xx. 12: "Sed cum ignoremus quid agere debeamus, hoc solum habemus residui, ut oculos n[...] 424: See ch. xxx. § 6.
425: Ch. xl. 426: Baltasar Alvarez was father-minister of the house of St. Giles, Avila, in whose absence she had re[...] 427: Y diese higas. "Higa es una manera de menosprecio que hacemos cerrando el puño, y mostrando el d[...] 428: See Book of the Foundations, ch. viii. § 3, where the Saint refers to this advice, and to the bet[...] 429: See ch. xxvii. § 3, and ch. xxviii. § 4. 430: Ch. xxv. § 18. 431: The cross was made of ebony (Ribera). It is not known where that cross is now. The Saint gave it [...] 432: See Relation, i. § 3. 433: Ch. xx. § 11. 434: Inner Fortress, vi. 11, § 2; St. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, st. 1, p. 22, Engl. tran[...] 435: § 10. 436: Psalm xli. 2: "As the longing of the hart for the fountains of waters, so is the longing of my so[...] 437: Ch. xxvii. § 3. 438: In the MS. of the Saint preserved in the Escurial, the word is "cherubines;" but all the editors [...] 439: See Relation, viii. § 16. 440: "The most probable opinion is, that the piercing of the heart of the Saint took place in 1559. Th[...] 441: Brev. Rom. in fest. S. Teresiae, Oct. 15, Lect. v.: "Tanto autem divini amoris incendio cor ejus [...] 442: Ch. xx. § 11.
443: Ch. xxvii. §§ 17, 18, 19. 444: Hoja de lata, "cierta hoja de hierro muy delgada" (Cobarruvias, Tesoro, in voce). 445: Ch. xxiv. § 5. Doña Guiomar de Ulloa. 446: Ch. xxvi. § 5. 447: Ch. vii. § 12. 448: See ch. xxviii. § 24. 449: Ch. xxiii. § 7. 450: A "custody" is a division of the province, in the Order of St. Francis, comprising a certain numbe[...] 451: § 10. 452: Job i. 453: See ch. xxxii. § 1, &c. 454: See ch. xxviii. § 6. 455: See Way of Perfection, ch. lxi. § 2; but ch. xxxiv. § 8 of the earlier editions. 456: Ch. xx. § 21, ch. xxv. § 22, ch. xxvi. § 3. 457: "Un Credo." 458: Ch. xxix. § 11. 459: St. John iv. 5–42: the Gospel of Friday after the Third Sunday in Lent, where the words are, "h[...] 460: "Lord, give me this water" (St. John iv. 15). See ch. i. § 6; and Way of Perfection, ch. xxix. Â[...] 461: Ch. xiv. § 12.
462: 2 Cor. ii. 11: "Non enim ignoramus cogitationes ejus." 463: Ch. xxvii. § 4. 464: See Inner Fortress, vi. ch. iv. § 12. 465: Way of Perfection, ch. lxv. § 2; but ch. xxxvi. of the previous editions. 466: See ch. x. § 10. 467: Ch. xiii. § 3. 468: Ch. xx. § 38. 469: Ch. xxx. § 25. 470: Don Vicente de la Fuente thinks the first "Life" ended here; that which follows was written under[...]
471: See ch. v. § 14, ch. vi. § 1. 472: Ch. xxxi. § 3. 473: In 1558 (De la Fuente). 474: This was said by Maria de Ocampo, niece of St. Teresa, then living in the monastery of the Incarn[...] 475: Ch. xxiv. § 5. Doña Guiomar de Ulloa. 476: The Provincial of the Carmelites: F. Angel de Salasar (De la Fuente). 477: F. Pedro Ibañez (De la Fuente). 478: Ch. xxxiii. § 8. 479: Francis de Salcedo. 480: Ch. xxiii. § 6. 481: Gaspar Daza. See ch. xxiii. § 6.
482: Ch. xxi. § 6, ch. xxix. §§ 10, 11. 483: Pedro Ibañez. See ch. xxxviii. § 15. 484: Dionisio Vasquez. Of him the Bollandists say that he was very austere and harsh to his subjects, [...] 485: Gaspar de Salazar was made rector of the house in Avila in 1561, therein succeeding Vasquez (Bolla[...] 486: St. Teresa was commanded by our Lord to ask Father Baltasar Alvarez to make a meditation on Psalm[...] 487: Juana de Ahumada, wife of Juan de Ovalle. 488: The money was a present from her brother, Don Lorenzo de Cepeda; and the Saint acknowledges the r[...] 489: One day, she went with her sister—she was staying in her house—to hear a sermon in the church[...] 490: St. Luke ix. 58: "Filius autem hominis non habet ubi caput reclinet." 491: Pius IV., on Dec. 5, 1562, (Bouix). See ch. xxxix. § 19. 492: Ch. xxxii. § 14. 493: See ch. xxvii. § 7. 494: "Nuestro Señor," "our Lord," though inserted in the printed editions after the word "God," is no[...] 495: Don Alvaro de Mendoza, Bishop of Avila, afterwards of Palencia. 496: See ch. xxxvi. § 15; Way of Perfection, ch. v. § 10; Foundations, ch. xxxi. § 1.
497: Doña Luisa de la Cerda, sister of the Duke of Medina-Coeli, was now the widow of Arias Pardo, Ma[...] 498: F. Vicente Barron, Dominican (see ch. v. § 8), according to F. Bouix, on the authority of Ribera[...] 499: Pedro Ibañez (Bouix). 500: Ch. xxxiii. § 11. 501: Father Bouix says that here the word "confiar," "trust," in the printed text, has been substitute[...] 502: Ch. xxxiii. § 12. 503: Ch. xiv. § 10. 504: 1 Thess. v. 19: "Spiritum nolite extinguere." 505: St. Matt. xix. 26: "Apud Deum autem omnia possibilia sunt." 506: F. Gaspar de Salazar. 507: Ch. xxvi. § 3. 508: Ch. xxx. § 3. Doña Guiomar de Ulloa. 509: Don Martin de Guzman y Barrientos, husband of Maria de Cepeda, the Saint's sister.
510: Doña Luisa de la Cerda. 511: Maria of Jesus was the daughter of a Reporter of Causes in the Chancery of Granada; but his name [...] 512: The sixth chapter of the rule is: "Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium, esse dicat, sed sint vob[...] 513: See ch. xxxii. § 13. 514: The Constitutions which the Saint read in the Monastery of the Incarnation must have been the Con[...] 515: See Relation, i. § 10. 516: F. Pedro Ibañez. 517: Ch. xi. § 3. 518: F. Pedro Ibañez. 519: The house of Doña Luisa, in Toledo. 520: The monastery of the Incarnation, Avila. 521: 2 Cor. xii. 9: "Virtus in infirmitate perficitur." 522: See Way of Perfection, ch. xxii.; but ch. xiii. ed. Doblado. 523: See Foundations, ch. I, § 1. 524: St. Matt. xix. 29: "Et omnis qui reliquerit domum . . . propter nomen Meum, centuplum accipiet, e[...] 525: When the workmen were busy with the building, a nephew of the Saint, the child of her sister and [...] 526: Psalm xciii. 20: "Qui fingis laborem in praecepto."
527: Toledo. 528: Avila. In the beginning of June, 1562. 529: See ch. xxxiv. § 2. The Brief was dated Feb. 7, 1562, the third year of Pius IV. (De la Fuente).[...] 530: The Brief was addressed to Doña Aldonza de Guzman, and to Doña Guiomar de Ulloa, her daughter. [...] 531: Don Alvaro de Mendoza (De la Fuente). 532: Don Francisco de Salcedo. 533: St. Peter of Alcantara. "Truly this is the house of St. Joseph," were the Saint's words when he [...] 534: In less than three months, perhaps; for St. Peter died in the sixty-third year of his age, Oct. 1[...] 535: Don Juan de Ovalle. 536: When he saw that the Saint had made all her arrangements, he knew the meaning of his illness, and[...] 537: Doña Guiomar de Ulloa was now in her native place, Ciudad Toro. 538: The Mass was said by Gaspar Daza. See infra, § 18; Reforma, i. c. xlvi. § 3. 539: The bell which the Saint had provided for the convent weighed less than three pounds, and remaine[...] 540: They were Doña Ines and Doña Ana de Tapia, cousins of the Saint. There were present also Don Go[...] 541: Ch. xxxiii. § 13. 542: Ch. xxxiii. § 3. 543: The first of these was Antonia de Henao, a penitent of St. Peter of Alcantara, and who wished to [...] 544: See Foundations, ch. ii. § 1, and ch. xxxi, § 1. 545: Ch. xxxiii. §§ 1, 2. 546: Of the Incarnation. 547: F. Domingo Bañes, the great commentator on St. Thomas. On the margin of the MS., Bañes has wi[...] 548: See Ch. xxxix. § 25. 549: Gonzalo de Aranda (De la Fuente). 550: Don Francisco de Salcedo (ibid.). 551: Ch. xxiii. § 6; Gaspar Daza (ibid.). 552: He died Oct. 18, 1562. 553: Ch. xxvii. § 21. 554: "El Padre Presentado, Dominico. Presentado en algunas Religiones es cierto titulo de grado que es[...] 555: From the monastery of the Incarnation. These were Ana of St. John, Ana of All the Angels, Maria I[...] 556: Mid-Lent of 1563. 557: See Way of Perfection, ch. ii. 558: "Jejunium singulis diebus, exceptis Dominicis, observetis a Festo Exaltationis Sanctae Crucis usq[...] 559: See ch. xxxv. § 1. Maria of Jesus had founded her house in Alcala de Henares; but the austeriti[...]
560: The Saint, having interrupted her account of her interior life in order to give the history of th[...] 561: Ephes. i. 14: "Pignus haereditatis nostrae." 562: St. John iii. 34: "Non enim ad mensuram dat Deus spiritum." 563: Ch. xxviii. §§ 1–5. 564: See ch. xl. § 24; Way of Perfection, ch. vii. § 1; but ch. iv. of the previous editions. 565: See ch. xx. § 14. 566: See ch. xxx. § 19. 567: See ch. xxx. §§ 18, 25.
568: Ch. xxxiv. Doña Luisa de la Cerda, at Toledo. 569: Ch. iv. § 6. 570: 1 St. Peter ii. 11: "Advenas et peregrinos." 571: Philipp. iii. 20: "Nostra autem conversatio in coelis est." 572: The Life of Christ, by Ludolf of Saxony. 573: F. Pedro Ibañez. See ch. xxxiii. § 5, ch. xxxvi. § 23. "This father died Prior of Trianos," is[...] 574: St. Joseph, Avila, where St. Teresa was living at this time. 575: See below, § 41. 576: F. Gaspar de Salazar: see ch. xxxiii. § 9, ch. xxxiv. § 2. It appears from the 179th letter of [...] 577: 2 Cor. xii. 2: "Sive in corpore nescio, sive extra corpus nescio." 578: See ch. xxviii. 579: Job iv. 15: "Inhorruerunt pili carnis meae." 580: The biographers of the Saint say that she often found, on returning from an ecstasy, certain pass[...] 581: § 22. 582: St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. xxvi. vol. i. p. 183. 583: See ch. xxvii. 584: Ch. xxx. § 9. 585: § 34. 586: § 15. Fr. Pedro Ibañez.
587: Ch. xxxiii. § 10. F. Gaspar de Salazar. 588: 3 Kings xix. 12: "Sibilus aurae tenuis." 589: See St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, bk. iii. ch. i, p. 210). 590: Ch. xxxiv. § 1. 591: St. John iii. 34: "Non enim ad mensuram dat Deus spiritum." 592: See ch. xxxiii. § 15. 593: St. Matt. xx. 9–14: "Volo autem et huic novissimo dare sicut et tibi." 594: Ch. xiv. § 12. 595: The Saint had this vision when she was in the house of Doña Luisa de la Cerda in Toledo, and it w[...] 596: 2 Paralip. xx. 12: "Hoc solum habemus residui, ut oculos nostros dirigamus ad Te." 597: Ch. xx. § 4. 598: Ch. xxix. § 16. 599: Ch. xxix. § 13. 600: § 28. 601: See ch. xxviii. §§ 19, 20. 602: Commonly called the Creed of St. Athanasius.
603: Ch. xxxii. § 1. 604: Ch. xxviii. § 14. 605: St. Matt. v. 18: "Iota unum aut unus apex non praeteribit a lege." 606: Ch. iv. § 10. 607: "Ecce quantum spatiatus sum in memoria mea quaerens Te, Domine; et non Te inveni extra eam. . . .[...] 608: Ch. xx. § 26. 609: Ch. xxv. § 18, ch. xxvi. § 4. See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. xxii. 610: § 8. 611: Yepez says that the Order here spoken of is the Carmelite, and Ribera understands the Saint to re[...] 612: Job xiv. 2: "Nunquam in eodem statu permanet." 613: See ch. xxxvii. §§ 4, 6. 614: See ch. vii. § 18. 615: Ch. xxx. § 10. 616: Ch. xxxi. §§ 16, 17. 617: Ch. xxviii. § 6. 618: See ch. xiv. § 12. 619: This letter, which seems to have accompanied the "Life," is printed among the other letters of th[...] 620: Juan de Avila, commonly called the Apostle of Andalusia. 621: I.e. of the MS. See p. 337 of this translation.
622: Fra Anton. a Sancto Joseph, in his notes on this Relation, usually published among the letters of[...] 623: See Life, ch. xxix. §§ 9–13. 624: De la Fuente thinks she means the religious state. 625: See Life, ch. xxiv. § 8, and ch. xxxi. § 22. 626: See Life, ch. xxiii. § 19. 627: See Life, ch. xxxv. § 2. 628: See Life, ch. ix. § 6, and ch. xiv. § 7. 629: See § 3, above. 630: St. Matt. vi. 31: "Nolite ergo solliciti esse, dicentes: Quid manducabimus. . . . aut quo operiem[...] 631: See Life, ch. vii. § 2. 632: See Life, ch. ii. § 2. 633: § 2, above. 634: See Life, ch. xx. § 29. 635: See Life, ch. xxxi. § 17. 636: See Life, ch. xxv. § 20. 637: See Life, ch. xxv. §§ 18, 22.
638: Addressed, it is believed, to her confessor, F. Pedro Ibañez. This Relation corresponds with ch.[...] 639: See Life, ch. xxvii. 640: See Life, ch. xxxi. § 15. 641: The Saint is supposed to refer to the troubles she endured during the foundation of the monastery[...] 642: Gal. ii. 20: "Vivo autem, jam non ego; vivit vero in me Christus." 643: A celebrated Dominican, professor of theology in Salamanca (Bouix).
644: Alonzo Ramirez wished to have the right of burial in the new monastery, but the nobles of Toledo [...] 645: See Way of Perfection, ch. viii.; but ch. v. of the previous editions. 646: See Book of the Foundations, ch. iii. 647: In the copy kept in Toledo, the day is Tuesday after the Assumption (De la Fuente). 648: Ch. xxvii. § 10. 649: St. John xiv. 23: "Ad eum veniemus, et mansionem apud eum faciemus." 650: See § 6. 651: Titus ii. 5: "Sobrias, domus curam habentes." 652: This took place in 1571, when the Saint had been appointed prioress of the monastery of the Incar[...] 653: See Book of the Foundations, ch. xxviii. 654: Cant. v. 1: "Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum, et comedat." 655: A.D. 1572. 656: Maria de Velasco y Aragon, Countess of Osorno (Ribera, lib. iii. c. 1). 657: See Relation iv. § 2. 658: The monastery of the Incarnation, Avila (De la Fuente). 659: St. John of the Cross, at the instance of the Saint, was sent to Avila, with another father of th[...] 660: 2 Cor. xi. 27: "In labore et aerumna, in vigiliis multis." 661: St. Matt. xvii. 2: "Et transfiguratus est ante eos." 662: St. John xiii. 16: "Non est servus major domino suo."
663: Isabel of Jesus, born in Segovia, and whose family name was Jimena, told Ribera (vide lib. iv. c.[...] 664: See Fortress of the Soul, vi. ch. xi. 665: See Relation, iii. § 16. 666: See above, § 1.
667: 2 Cor. i. 12: "Gloria nostra haec est, testimonium conscientiae nostrae." 668: See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. v. 669: See Foundations, ch. v. § 10. 670: Eccl. ix. 1: "Nescit homo utrum amore an odio dignus sit." 671: See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. iii. ch. xxxiv. 672: The §§ 6, 7, and 8 are the thirteenth letter of the second volume, ed. Doblado. 673: See Relation iii. § 13. 674: Anton. a Sancto Joseph, in his notes on this passage, is anxious to save the Thomist doctrine tha[...] 675: 2 Maccab. ix. 10, 12: "Eum nemo poterat propter intolerantiam foetoris portare, . . . . nec ipse [...] 676: Cassian, Collat. vii. cap. iv. p. 311: "Nec enim si quis ignarus natandi, sciens pondus corporis s[...] 677: Anton. a Sancto Joseph says that the Saint meant to write four-and-twenty, in allusion to Apoc. i[...] 678: Apoc. viii. 4.
679: See Foundations, ch. xxii. 680: Psalm cxlvii. 14: "He hath made thy borders peace." 681: Perhaps the Saint refers to what she has written in her Life, ch. xxxviii. §§ 11, 12. 682: Life, ch. iv. § 1.
683: See Life, ch. xxiv. § 4. 684: See Life, ch. xxv. § 18. 685: See Life, ch. xxv. § 20, and ch. xxvii. § 1. 686: See Life, ch. xxvi. § 5. 687: Don Francisco de Soto y Salazar was a native of Bonilli de la Sierra, and Vicar-General of the Bi[...] 688: This book is the Way of Perfection, written by direction of F. Bañes. 689: The Saint had such great affection for the Order of St. Dominic, that she used to say of herself,[...] 690: When this father had read the Life, he had it copied, with the assent of F. Gratian, and gave the[...] 691: See Foundations, ch. xvii. § 12, note. 692: Life, ch. xxiii. § 15. 693: Life, ch. xxvi. § 5. 694: § 4. 695: Life, ch. xxv. § 19. 696: Life, ch. xxv. § 22. 697: See Life, ch. xxvii. § 5.
698: Inner Fortress, iv. ch. iii. 699: See Life, ch. xvii. § 5. 700: Compare Life, ch. xxiv. § 4. 701: See Life, ch. xx. § 23. 702: "Arrobamiento y arrebatamiento." 703: See Life, chs. xx. and xxi. 704: Life, ch. xx. § 16; Inner Fortress, vi. c. xi. 705: See Life, ch. xxix. § 17. 706: See Life, ch. xvii. § 9. 707: See Relation, iii. § 6. 708: See St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. xxii.
709: F. Yepes, then prior of St. Jerome's, Toledo (De la Fuente). 710: Don Alonzo Velasquez, canon of Toledo, to whom Relation xi. is addressed. The Saint speaks of thi[...] 711: Fra Jerome Gratian (De la Fuente). 712: 1 St. Peter iv. 13: "Communicantes Christi passionibus, gaudete." 713: This took place in 1575, when she was going to found her monastery in Seville (Ribera, l. iv. c. v[...] 714: See § 4, above. 715: This was in 1575, when the Saint was founding the monastery of Seville; and the brother was Don L[...] 716: In the Chapter "De la Clausura," § 16: "De tratar con deudos se desvien lo mas que pudieren." 717: The monastery of Paterna, of the unreformed Carmelites. This was in 1576 (De la Fuente). 718: St. Matt. xvi. 16: "Tu es Christus, Filius Dei vivi." 719: Gen. i. 26: "Ad imaginem et similitudinem Nostram." 720: Fra Jerome Gratian. This took place during the persecution that fell on the reformed Carmelites a[...] 721: Galat. ii. 20: "Vivo autem, jam non ego: vivit vero in me Christus." 722: A.D. 1577 (De la Fuente). 723: Jerome Gratian (id.). 724: 1 Cor. x. 13: "Fidelis autem Deus est qui non patietur vos tentari supra id quod potestis." 725: Don Vicente says, that here is a proof—if any were wanting—that the Saint wrote this after he[...] 726: Fra Jerome Gratian. 727: Cant. v. 1. 728: This was the name given to Fra Jerome Gratian, when the Saint was driven, by the persecution rais[...] 729: See the last section. 730: Don Vicente published §§ 25 and 26 as fragments separately (vol. i. pp. 524–526); but, as the[...] 731: Fra Jerome Gratian exhibited the brief which made him Visitor-Apostolic to the unreformed Carmeli[...] 732: See § 26.
735: This Relation is usually printed among the letters of the Saint, and Don Vicente did not change t[...] 736: See Inner Fortress, vii. ch. ii. 737: This relates to the taking of the hermitage of our Lady de la Calle, in Palencia (De la Fuente). S[...] 738: "La soledad que me hace pensar no se puede dar aquel sentido à el que mama los pechos de mi madre[...] 739: St. John xiv. 23: "Mansionem apud eum faciemus." Â
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