- Saint Teresa of Avila -
. I created this unique and meaningful necklace designs in honor of Saint Teresa of Avila.
Express your faith and devotion with this handmade necklace, it's a very powerful piece and a true gift for yourself or someone special.
. Created With:
Beautiful 57x37mm pendant with an image of Saint Teresa of Avila, adorned with clear rhinestones.
This locket comes with chain.
Materials: Rhinestones & Metal
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- About Saint Teresa of Avila
Facts
Feastday: October 15
Patron of Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers
Birth: March 28, 1515
Death: October 4, 1582
Beatified By: April 24th 1614, Rome by Pope Paul V
Canonized By: March 12th 1622, Rome by Pope Gregory XV
Teresa lived in an age of exploration as well as political, social and religious upheaval. It was the 16th century, a time of turmoil and reform. She was born before the Protestant Reformation and died almost 20 years after the closing of the Council of Trent.
The gift of God to Teresa in and through which she became holy and left her mark on the Church and the world is threefold: She was a woman; she was a contemplative; she was an active reformer.
As a woman, Teresa stood on her own two feet, even in the man's world of her time. She was "her own woman," entering the Carmelites despite strong opposition from her father. She is a person wrapped not so much in silence as in mystery. Beautiful, talented, outgoing, adaptable, affectionate, courageous, enthusiastic, she was totally human. Like Jesus, she was a mystery of paradoxes: wise, yet practical; intelligent, yet much in tune with her experience; a mystic, yet an energetic reformer. A holy woman, a womanly woman.
Teresa was a woman "for God," a woman of prayer, discipline and compassion. Her heart belonged to God. Her ongoing conversion was an arduous lifelong struggle, involving ongoing purification and suffering. She was misunderstood, misjudged, opposed in her efforts at reform. Yet she struggled on, courageous and faithful; she struggled with her own mediocrity, her illness, her opposition. And in the midst of all this she clung to God in life and in prayer. Her writings on prayer and contemplation are drawn from her experience: powerful, practical and graceful. A woman of prayer; a woman for God.
Teresa was a woman "for others." Though a contemplative, she spent much of her time and energy seeking to reform herself and the Carmelites, to lead them back to the full observance of the primitive Rule. She founded over a half-dozen new monasteries. She traveled, wrote, fought—always to renew, to reform. In her self, in her prayer, in her life, in her efforts to reform, in all the people she touched, she was a woman for others, a woman who inspired and gave life.
Her writings, especially the Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle, have helped generations of believers.
In 1970, the Church gave her the title she had long held in the popular mind: Doctor of the Church. She and St. Catherine of Siena were the first women so honored.
Prayer
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone is enough.
(St. Teresa of Avila)