One of the many striking aspects of her life is that she protected herself and the intimate connection that she had developed with God - which she described as “nothing else than a friendly relationship, a frequent private conversation with Him by whom we know ourselves to be loved” - by writing her autobiography, La Vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jesús ( The Life of Teresa de Jesus), one of the great religious books of human history.
Saint Teresa of Avila was a woman of 16 th century Spain, a nun mystic experienced in the bliss and pain of religious ecstasy but also nun living under the power of male clergy and hierarchy who were wont to mistrust women and mysticism.
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