Teresa always denied her own saintliness, however, saying in a letter: 'There is no suggestion of that nonsense about my supposed sanctity.' This frank account is one of the great stories of a religious life and a literary masterpiece - after Don Quixote, it is Spain's most widely read prose classic. She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain. Shortly after this event, Teresa was entrusted to the care of the Augustinian nuns. Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his second wife, who died when Teresa was 15, one of ten children. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself Paperback. Teresa Snchez de Cepeda Dvila y Ahumada Borned in vila, Spain, on March 28, 1515, St. Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one.
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