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By Ana de San Bartolomé,Darcy Donahue

ISBN-10: 0226143724

ISBN-13: 9780226143729

Ana de San Bartolomé (1549–1626), a latest and shut affiliate of St. Teresa of Ávila, typifies the curious mix of non secular activism and religious forcefulness that characterised the 1st new release of Discalced, or reformed Carmelites. identified for his or her austerity and ethics, their convents speedy unfold all through Spain and, less than Ana’s information, additionally to France and the Low international locations. continually embroiled in disputes along with her male superiors, Ana fast turned the main vocal and visual of those mystical girls and the main fearless of the guardians of the Carmelite structure, particularly after Teresa’s death.

Her autobiography, in actual fact inseparable from her spiritual vocation, expresses the tensions and conflicts that frequently observed the lives of girls whose dating to the divine endowed them with an expert at odds with the transitority powers of church and kingdom. final translated into English in 1916, Ana’s writings provide glossy readers attention-grabbing insights into the character of monastic existence in the course of the hugely charged non secular and political weather of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Spain.

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