Spanish Carmelite and mystic Teresa of Ávila…

1562 CE

Spanish Carmelite and mystic Teresa of Ávila (Teresa de Cespeda y Ahumada), despite strong opposition to her cause—the strict observance of the austere Carmelite rule—succeeds in 1562 in opening the Convent of Saint Joseph in Ávila, the first of the reformed Carmelite houses.

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Ávila Castilla y Leon Spain View →

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Teresa of Ávila View →

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Carmelites (Christian Monasticists) View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View →

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Protestant Reformation View → Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) View →

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