Teresa de Jesus (real name Teresa Cepeda) was a Spanish nun and saint. She was born in 1515 at Avilla and died in 1582. In 1534 she entered a Carmelite convent where she found the rule of order to be laxly observed. In 1555 she experienced a sudden conversion and practised extreme austerities and was habitually entranced with prayer, and claimed to have had many visions. Having decided to reform the order she founded a new convent at Avilla dedicated to St Joseph in 1562. She was canonised in 1622 and declared the patron saint of Spain in 1814. Research Teresa
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