The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume 2

By Teresa of Avila, translation by Kieran Kavanaugh

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The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume 2

Features Years 1578-1582

Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh

This second and final book of St. Teresa's letters begins in 1578, a difficult year for Teresa. Teresa, a keen observer of the world around her as well as within, sheds light on many of the challenges in both the Carmelite order and the church of sixteenth-century Spain in these letters. She introduces us to historical figures who have made their imprint on history.

Through her letters, historians acquire a clearer understanding of the sequence of events in Teresa's life and how she interacted with the many persons with whom she had relations. A lot of little details that editors thought were trivial at the time are now highly valued. Her concerns, difficulties, and achievements, as well as her feelings of pain and delight, are all documented.

These letters, written in a fascinating candid style, reveal Teresa in a wide range of settings. God's amazing grace prepared this Spanish Madre for a challenging ministry of service that required weighty obligations and dragged her contemplative spirit into a whirlwind of activities. Because of the restricted means of travel and communication in the sixteenth century, the organization of a reform like hers, with its inevitable business issues, had to be handled mostly by writing, a vexing responsibility that became one of Teresa's greatest burdens. She frequently stated that letter-writing was her greatest hardship, a tedious activity that cost her more than all the poor roads and harsh weather she encountered on her treks around Spain.

With its endnotes, biographical sketches, and above all, fresh translation, this second volume of Teresa's Collected Letters opens again another door into the intriguing world of this saint, one of the greatest women history has known.