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Teresa of Avila is renowned as a great saint, the foundress of the Discalced Carmelites and a Doctor of the Church.In this very accessible edition of the first volume of her autobiography, we meet a frivolous teenager, who became a frivolous nun at...

In this edited selection from the accounts Angela dictated both of her visionary experiences and her advice and insights, Ruth Obbard has rendered into direct speech the voice of a woman from the thirteenth century, robust and passionate, constantly...