The Death of a Beloved Saint: Teresa of Avila's Final Journey by Jeff Callaway
The Death of a Beloved Saint: Teresa of Avila's Final Journey By Jeff Callaway Texas Outlaw Poet The old woman was dying, and she knew it. At sixty-seven years old, Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada had worn her body down to nothing more than raw will wrapped in tired flesh. Her feet carried her across Spain one last time that late summer of 1582, though by rights those feet should have been propped up in some quiet corner, resting after a lifetime of walking dusty roads in sandals that barely held together. But Teresa was not one for quiet corners, not until Jesus Himself called her home. And call her home He would, but not before asking one more impossible thing from His faithful daughter. The Road From Burgos Teresa had established her final convent at Burgos in April 1582, her seventeenth foundation of Discalced Carmelite nuns. She was exhausted beyond anything most of us could fathom. The woman had spent the last twenty years of her life crisscrossing Spain, establishing re...
