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The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus

The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
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  1. Introduction to the Present Edition
  2. St. Teresa’s Arguments of the Chapters
  3. Preface by David Lewis
  4. Annals of the Saint’s Life
  5. The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus. Prologue
  6. Chapter I. Childhood and Early Impressions…
  7. Chapter II. Early Impressions. Dangerous Books and Companions…
  8. Chapter III. The Blessing of Being with Good People…
  9. Chapter IV. Our Lord Helps Her to Become a Nun…
  10. Chapter V. Illness and Patience of the Saint…
  11. Chapter VI. The Great Debt She Owed to Our Lord for His Mercy to Her…
  12. Chapter VII. Lukewarmness. The Loss of Grace…
  13. Chapter VIII. The Saint Ceases Not to Pray…
  14. Chapter IX. The Means Whereby Our Lord Quickened Her Soul…
  15. Chapter X. The Graces She Received in Prayer…
  16. Chapter XI. Why Men Do Not Attain Quickly to the Perfect Love of God…
  17. Chapter XII. What We Can Ourselves Do…
  18. Chapter XIII. Of Certain Temptations of Satan…
  19. Chapter XIV. The Second State of Prayer…
  20. Chapter XV. Instructions for Those Who Have Attained to the Prayer of Quiet…
  21. Chapter XVI. The Third State of Prayer…
  22. Chapter XVII. The Third State of Prayer…
  23. Chapter XVIII. The Fourth State of Prayer…
  24. Chapter XIX. The Effects of This Fourth State of Prayer…
  25. Chapter XX. The Difference Between Union and Rapture…
  26. Chapter XXI. Conclusion of the Subject…
  27. Chapter XXII. The Security of Contemplatives Lies in Their Not Ascending…
  28. Chapter XXIII. The Saint Resumes the History of Her Life…
  29. Chapter XXIV. Progress Under Obedience…
  30. Chapter XXV. Divine Locutions…
  31. Chapter XXVI. How the Fears of the Saint Vanished…
  32. Chapter XXVII. The Saint Prays to Be Directed by a Different Way…
  33. Chapter XXVIII. Visions of the Sacred Humanity, and of the Glorified Bodies…
  34. Chapter XXIX. Of Visions…
  35. Chapter XXX. St. Peter of Alcantara Comforts the Saint…
  36. Chapter XXXI. Of Certain Outward Temptations and Appearances of Satan…
  37. Chapter XXXII. Our Lord Shows St. Teresa the Place Which She Had by Her Sins Deserved in Hell…
  38. Chapter XXXIII. The Foundation of the Monastery Hindered…
  39. Chapter XXXIV. The Saint Leaves Her Monastery of the Incarnation for a Time…
  40. Chapter XXXV. The Foundation of the House of St. Joseph…
  41. Chapter XXXVI. The Foundation of the Monastery of St. Joseph…
  42. Chapter XXXVII. The Effects of the Divine Graces in the Soul…
  43. Chapter XXXVIII. Certain Heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations…
  44. Chapter XXXIX. Other Graces Bestowed on the Saint…
  45. Chapter XL. Visions, Revelations, and Locutions
  46. Relation I
  47. Relation II
  48. Relation III
  49. Relation IV
  50. Relation V
  51. Relation VI
  52. Relation VII
  53. Relation VIII
  54. Relation IX
  55. Relation X
  56. Relation XI

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Alfonso Sanchez de Cepeda, father of the Saint, married first Catalina del Peso y Henao, and had three children--one daughter, Maria de Cepeda, and two sons. After the death of Catalina, he married Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, by whom he had nine children--seven boys and two girls. The third of these, and the eldest of the daughters, was the Saint, Doña Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada. In the Monastery of the Incarnation, where she was a professed nun for twenty-eight years, she was known as Doña Teresa; but in the year 1563, when she left her monastery for the new foundation of St. Joseph, of the Reform of the Carmelites, she took for the first time the name of Teresa of Jesus (De la Fuente). The Saint was born March 28, 1515, and baptized on the 4th of April, in the church of St. John; on which day Mass was said for the first time in the Monastery of the Incarnation, where the Saint made her profession. Her godfather was Vela Nuñez, and her godmother Doña Maria del Aguila. The Bollandists and Father Bouix say that she was baptized on the very day of her birth. But the testimony of Doña Maria de Pinel, a nun in the Monastery of the Incarnation, is clear: and Don Vicente de La Fuente, quoting it, vol. i. p. 549, says that this delay of baptism was nothing singular in those days, provided there was no danger of death.

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