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Life of St. Teresa of Jesus

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  • Introduction to the Present Edition.
  1: 1. Chap. xxxiv., note 5.
  2: Chap. xviii. § 11.
  3: Fuente, Obras (1881), vol. vi. p. 133.
  4: See the licence granted by Leo X. to the prioress and convent of the Incarnation to build another[...]
  5: Chap. iv § 9.
  6: Lettres de Ste. Thérèse, edit. P. Grégoire de S. Joseph, vol. iii, p. 419, note 2.
  7: Chap. xxxvi. § 10. The date of this part of the Life can be easily ascertained from the two follo[...]
  8: When about A.D. 1452 certain communities of Beguines demanded affiliation to the Carmelite Order,[...]
  9: Reforma lib. i., cap. 47. Bollandists. no. 366.
  10: Chap. vii. § 11.
  11: Chap. v. § 2.
  12: Constitutions of 1462. Part i., cap. x.
  13: Chap. xxiii. § 17.
  14: Deposition for the process of canonisation, written in 1591. Fuente, Obras, vol. vi., p. 174.
  15: See the notes to chapters vii. § 11; xvi. § 10; xx. § 6; xxiv. § 4; xxvii. § 17. At the end [...]
  16: Bollandists, no. 1518.
  17: Lettres, edit. Grégoire. I., pp. 13 (18 May, 1568); 21 (27 May); 35 (2 November).
  18: Reforma, vol. i., lib. v., cap. xxxv., no. 9. Bollandists, no. 1518.
  19: If the latter, it must have been very much shorter than the second edition, and can scarcely have[...]
  20: Chap. xxxiii. § 7.
  21: Chap. xxxiv. § 8.
  22: Chap. xvi. § 2.
  23: Chap. xvii. § 7.
  24: Chap. xxviii. § 10.
  25: In the Prologue to the Book of Foundations, Father Garcia de Toledo, [note continues, p. xviii.] h[...]
  26: Chap. xviii. § 11.
  27: Chap. xiii. § 22. In chap. xvi. § 12, the Saint says: "I wish we five who now love one another [...]
  28: Chap. x. §§ 11 and 12.
  29: This is the second reason why the letter could not have been addressed to Father Ibañez in 1562.[...]
  30: Edited by Don Francisco Herrero Bayona, 1883 p. 4.
  31: Ibid., chap. xli. (see Dalton's translation, chap. xxv.).
  32: Ibid., chap. lxxiii. See the difference in Dalton's translation, chap. xlii.
  33: Fuente, Obras, vol. vi., p. 275.
  34: See the following Preface, p. xxxvii. Lettres, ed. Grégoire, ii., p. 65. P. Bertholde-Ignace, Vie[...]
  35: In the Prologue to the Book of Foundations, St. Teresa says that Father Garcia de Toledo ordered h[...]
  36: Chap. x. § 11.
  37: See Historia Generalis Fratrum Discalceatorum Ordinis B. Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo Congrega[...]
  38: See Carmel in England, by Rev. Father B. Zimmerman, p. 240 sqq.



  • Introduction to the Present Edition.
    • St. Teresa's Arguments of the Chapters.
  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.



  • Preface by David Lewis.
  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.



  • Annals of the Saint's Life.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Prologue.
  84: The Saint, in a letter written November 19, 1581, to Don Pedro de Castro, then canon of Avila, sp[...]



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter I. Childhood and Early Impressions. The Blessing of Pious Parents. Desire of Martyrdom. Death of the Saint's Mother.
  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[...]



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter II. Early Impressions. Dangerous Books and Companions. The Saint Is Placed in a Monastery.
  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[...]



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter III. The Blessing of Being with Good People. How Certain Illusions Were Removed.
  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).



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter IV. Our Lord Helps Her to Become a Nun. Her Many Infirmities.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter V. Illness and Patience of the Saint. The Story of a Priest Whom She Rescued from a Life of Sin.
  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[...]



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter VI. The Great Debt She Owed to Our Lord for His Mercy to Her. She Takes St. Joseph for Her Patron.
  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."



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter VII. Lukewarmness. The Loss of Grace. Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious Houses.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter VIII. The Saint Ceases Not to Pray. Prayer the Way to Recover What Is Lost. All Exhorted to Pray. The Great Advantage of Prayer, Even to Those Who May Have Ceased from It.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter IX. The Means Whereby Our Lord Quickened Her Soul, Gave Her Light in Her Darkness, and Made Her Strong in Goodness.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter X. The Graces She Received in Prayer. What We Can Do Ourselves. The Great Importance of Understanding What Our Lord Is Doing for Us. She Desires Her Confessors to Keep Her Writings Secret, Because of the Special Graces of Our Lord to Her, Which They Had Commanded Her to Describe.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XI. Why Men Do Not Attain Quickly to the Perfect Love of God. Of Four Degrees of Prayer. Of the First Degree. The Doctrine Profitable for Beginners, and for Those Who Have No Sensible Sweetness.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XII. What We Can Ourselves Do. The Evil of Desiring to Attain to Supernatural States Before Our Lord Calls Us.
  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.



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    • Chapter XIII. Of Certain Temptations of Satan. Instructions Relating Thereto.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XIV. The Second State of Prayer. Its Supernatural Character.
  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."



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XV. Instructions for Those Who Have Attained to the Prayer of Quiet. Many Advance So Far, But Few Go Farther.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XVI. The Third State of Prayer. Deep Matters. What the Soul Can Do That Has Reached It. Effects of the Great Graces of Our Lord.
  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). [...]



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XVII. The Third State of Prayer. The Effects Thereof. The Hindrance Caused by the Imagination and the Memory.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XVIII. The Fourth State of Prayer. The Great Dignity of the Soul Raised to It by Our Lord. Attainable on Earth, Not by Our Merit, But by the Goodness of Our Lord.
  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 àJesu, 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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XIX. The Effects of This Fourth State of Prayer. Earnest Exhortations to Those Who Have Attained to It Not to Go Back, Nor to Cease from Prayer, Even If They Fall. The Great Calamity of Going Back.
  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.



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XX. The Difference Between Union and Rapture. What Rapture Is. The Blessing It Is to the Soul. The Effects of It.
  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?"



  • The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Written by Herself.
    • Chapter XXI. Conclusion of the Subject. Pain of the Awakening. Light Against Delusions.
  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."



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  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.



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  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.



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  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.



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  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."



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  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."



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  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.



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  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.



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  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.



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  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.



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  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[...]



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  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.



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  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.



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  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.



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  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."



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  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[...]



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  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.



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  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.



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  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.



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  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation I. Sent to St. Peter of Alcantara in 1560 from the Monastery of the Incarnation, Avila.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation II. To One of Her Confessors, from the House of Doña Luisa de la Cerda, in 1562.
  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).



  • The Relations.
    • Relation III. Of Various Graces Granted to the Saint from the Year 1568 to 1571 Inclusive.
  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."



  • The Relations.
    • Relation IV. Of the Graces the Saint Received in Salamanca at the End of Lent, 1571.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation V. Observations on Certain Points of Spirituality.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation VI. The Vow of Obedience to Father Gratian Which the Saint Made in 1575.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation VII. Made for Rodrigo Alvarez, S.J., in the Year 1575, According to Don Vicente de la Fuente; but in 1576, According to the Bollandists and F. Bouix.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation VIII. Addressed to F. Rodrigo Alvarez.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation IX. Of Certain Spiritual Graces She Received in Toledo and Avila in the Years 1576 and 1577.
  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.



  • The Relations.
    • Relation X. Of a Revelation to the Saint at Avila, 1579, and of Certain Directions Concerning the Government of the Order.
  733: See Life, ch. xxxviii. § 11.
  734: Psalm xxxviii. 3: "Concaluit cor meum intra me."



  • The Relations.
    • Relation XI. Written from Palencia in May 1581, and Addressed to Don Alonzo Velasquez, Bishop of Osma, Who Had Been, When Canon of Toledo, One of the Saint's Confessors.
  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 àel que mama los pechos de mi madre[...]
  739: St. John xiv. 23: "Mansionem apud eum faciemus."  



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