Sister Teresa: The Woman Who Became Saint Teresa of Avila

by Mujica, Barbara
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ISBN: 9781590200254
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She is Saint Teresa--known as a mystic, reformer and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society suffering through the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In Barbara Mujica's masterful tale, her story--her days of youthful romance, her sensual fits of spiritual rapture, secret heritage as a Jewish convert to Catholicism, cloak-and-dagger political dealings, struggles against sexual blackmail, and mysterious illness--unfolds with a tumultuous urgency. Blending fact with fiction in vivid detail, painstakingly researched and beautifully rendered, Mujica's tale conjures a brilliant picture of sisterhood, faith, the terror of religious persecution, the miracle of salvation, and to one woman's challenge to the power of strict orthodoxy, a challenge that consisted of a crime of passion--her own personal relationship with God.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Mujica, Barbara
  • ISBN: 9781590200254
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.94 x 0.98
  • Number Of Pages: 384
  • Publication Year: 2008

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