Interior Castle St Teresa of Avila (Pure Gold Classic) (Pure Gold Classics)
St. Teresa of Avila1515-1582, a major figure of the Catholic Reformation, was a prominent writer and a monastic reformer. Teresa joined the Carmelite order of nuns as a young woman and spent long hours in a form of meditation that she called theprayer of quiet and the deeper prayer of union.During her life Teresa wrote several books that have become spiritual classics. Her best-known work isInterior Castlewritten in 1577. She is recognized as one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church and one of only three female Doctors of the Church, along with St. Catherine of Sienna and St. Therese of Lisieux.