The eagle and the dove: a study in contrasts, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux / V. Sackvillle-West
Carmelites
Spain, biography
Mystics
Saints, biography
Christian women saints
France, biography
Christian saints
Spiritual life
Catholic Church
Biography
The lives of these two saints with similar names could hardly be more contrasting. St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelites, 'busy woman and great saint', endured the religious mania of sixteenth-century Spain and lived in a state of near perpetual ecstasy. Thérèse, on the other hand, lived the quiet …
Borrow to read
This scan is available through Internet Archive's free lending library — sign in or create a free account below, then borrow to read.
Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.