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ST TERESA OF AVILA, VIRGIN - 15th OCTOBER

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1. Teresa was born of pious and noble parents at Avila, in Spain. While she was still a very little girl, she was so enkindled with a desire for martyrdom that, running away from home, she tried to go to Africa.
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2. She was brought back to her home. After her mother’s death, she committed herself wholly to the patronage of the Blessed Virgin.

When she was twenty years old, she embraced the rule of the nuns of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Solicitous for the salvation of souls, she built
3. many monasteries and proposed that the original rule of the Carmelite foundation be observed by its women and men.

She continually offered to God the voluntary sufferings of her own body on behalf of infidels and heretics and, burning with divine love, she took a most
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