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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself. J. M. Cohen, 1957. Penguin Classics; Life of St. Teresa of Jesus. Translated by Benedict Zimmerman, 1997. Tan Books, ISBN 978-0-89555-603-5; The Life of Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of Teresa of Avila. Translated by E. Allison Peers, 1991. Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-01109-9
Santa Teresa d'Avila is a minor basilica, titular, and conventual church on the Corso d'Italia in Rome, Italy . It is dedicated to Teresa of Avila and is the church of the General Curia of the Discalced Carmelites .
It was built by the Order of Discalced Carmelites, as outlined by friar Alonso de San José, in the Carmelite style in the first third of the 17th century, supposedly on the site where Saint Teresa of Ávila was born. The central rectangle is divided in four bodies with a triangular pediment with a circle in the middle. The lowest part contains ...
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582), or Teresa of Jesus, Spaniard, founder of the Discalced Carmelites, and Doctor of the Church; Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart (1747–1770), an Italian Discalced Carmelite; Theresa of Saint Augustine (1752–1794), Discalced Carmelite and martyr; Thérèse Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of ...
Main nave leading up to the crossing, 2017. The church's name was in honor of Teresa of Avila, its patron saint. [2] Talisay during the Spanish times was a property of Augustinian friars and a visita of San Nicolas, [3] which was a district south of then municipality of Cebu and to which it was later annexed. [4]
Ana de Jesús, known in English as Anne of Jesus (25 November 1545 – 4 March 1621), was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and writer. She was the founder of the Carmelite reform and a close companion of Teresa of Ávila, and served to establish new monasteries of the Order throughout Europe.
The original main altarpiece was a Ste Theresa of Avila, the Virgin, and St Joseph by Guglielmo Caccia (il Moncalvo). Of the eight chapels, the Chapel of St Joseph was built in 1725 under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III, fulfilling the pledge by his second wife, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg. The chapel was designed by Filippo Juvarra.
Teresa (disambiguation) Sainte Thérèse (disambiguation) Santa Teresa (disambiguation) St. Theresa Church (disambiguation), the name of several churches; Saint Theresa's College (disambiguation), the name of several colleges; Saint Teresa's School (disambiguation), the name of several schools; Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, a sculpture in Rome; St ...