The Interior Castle (A Vero House Abridged Classic)
Avila, Teresa of / Nowell, Kenneth E.
(Edited for modern English, with minor abridgement.) She was born Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, in 1515, during Spain's Golden Age of discovery and conquest. But St. Teresa of Avila committed to a different--and greater--two-fold success: discovery of a soul's ecstatic union with God, and conquest of the worldly entanglements that jeopardize that unfathomable relationship. From her earliest years, Teresa knew her life would be offered to...