The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Vol. 3 by Teresa of Avila

Author:Teresa of Avila [Avila, Teresa of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
Publisher: ICS Publications
Published: 2011-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

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[1] In ch. 23, no. 1.

[2] The meeting between Gracián and Teresa took place in April 1575. Not until August 3 did the nuncio Ormaneto extend Gracián's authority to all the discalced Carmelites. See MHCT 1:221-223.

[3] See ch. 27, no. 6.

[4] This should read Andalusia and not Castile. In no. 2 she states that Gracián was apostolic commissary in Andalusia. Beas was in the ecclesiastical province of Andalusia; see no. 4.

[5] Don Cristóbal de Rojas y Sandoval (1502-1580), son of the marquis of Denia, had been Bishop of Oviedo, Badajoz, and Córdoba, as well as an active member of the Council of Trent.

[6] In the division of Spain into provinces, Beas came under the civil jurisdiction of Castile; but ecclesiastically it belonged to the diocese of Cartagena in Andalusia.

[7] Cf. no. 2.

[8] Fr. Gregorio Nacianceno who had already accompanied Teresa on the foundation to Beas. See ch. 22, no. 19, note 13.

[9] May 26, 1575.

[10] Their names were: María de San José; Isabel de San Francisco; Leonor de San Gabriel; Ana de San Alberto; María del Espíritu Santo; and Isabel de San Jerónimo.

[11] She mentioned only one discalced friar in the group; the other men mentioned were Julián de Avila and Antonio Gaytán. See no. 5.

[12] See no. 4.

[13] See Council of Trent, Session 25, De Refonnatione regularium, ch. 3.

[14] According to María de San José, the archbishop's opposition came from his desire that Teresa and her daughters reform the existing monasteries of nuns in Seville rather than found a new one. See her Libro de Recreaciones (Burgos: El Monte Carmelo, 1913), Recr. 9.

[15] May 29, 1575. The "said Father" was Fr. Mariano.

[16] She had two patent letters from Fr. Rubeo, the general of the Carmelites: one of April 27, 1567; another of April 6, 1571. See MHCT 1:62-65; 110-112.

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