I believe what you are referring to is a period of inquiry by the older observant Carmelite order involving Teresa, her friends, and reforms. A body of resolutions was adopted at the general chapter at Piacenza forbidding all further founding of convents and retirement to one of her institutions. She obeyed and retired to St. Joseph's at Toledo.

The general chapter at Piacenza was not one of the inquisitions.

Nor was it particularly surprising to leave alive - death penalties were rare even among the harshest of the inquisitions.

One of the biggest differences between her and some of the better-liked "heroes" by some on this blog is that she was obedient and quiet.