The Eagle and the Dove
Subtitle: A Study in Contrasts St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux
Publisher: Cardinal Books
Published: October 6, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780747402749
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
Description: The lives of these two saints with similar names could hardly be more contrasting. St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelites, 'busy woman and great saint', endured the religious mania of sixteenth-century Spain and lived in a state of near perpetual ecstasy. Thérèse, on the other hand, lived the quiet life of a nun in late-nineteenth-century France, was meek, devout and perhaps rather dim. She became a saint of the common people, largely because of the ordinariness of her life (excepting the odd vision).