The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa transforms a Spanish nun, mystic, and writer, into one of the most famous emblems of the ...

St. Teresa was born in the province of Avila in Spain, on March 28, 1515, at a time when the Spanish ground was moving. Twenty-three years before her birth, ...

Approximately 93,000 faithful venerated the body of St. Teresa of Jesus (Ávila), which was publicly exhibited May 11-25 for the third time in four centuries in the small town of Alba de Tormes ...

My wife and I stayed at the beautiful Los Parador (Marques de Canales de Chozas 2; 920-211-340), near both the Basilica of St. Vincent and the wall.

On Oct. 15, Roman Catholics celebrate the Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystic St. Teresa of Avila, whose life of prayer enriched the Church during the 16th century counter-reformation.

St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Ávila, reformed the Carmelites in the 1500s, going on to found the Discalced Carmelites, who rejected other Carmelites’ lax observance of ...

Pope Francis has hailed St. Teresa of Ávila as exemplar of courage and spiritual motherhood in a letter marking fifty years since the 16th century Spanish mystic was declared the first female ...

St. Teresa of Avila is depicted in a church in Troyes, France. March 28 is the 500th anniversary of her birth. (CNS/Crosiers) ...

I'm like, not again!' said one parishioner of the historic St. Teresa of Avila Church, who moved there after her previous ...

The remains of Saint Teresa of Ávila, the Spanish saint, mystic, and 16th-century religious reformer, are displayed at a church in Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, northwestern Spain, on Sunday, May 11 ...