![]() ![]() ![]() She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain. ![]() Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplationher spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. ![]()
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