Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies

''I beg anyone who reads this account to bear in mind, for the love of the Lord, how wicked my life has been''

Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the p...