{"product_id":"saint-teresa-of-avila-9780932506672","title":"Saint Teresa of Avila","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarcelle Auclair  the author  a delightful  sparkling woman of many achievements  strikes one as being nearly as versatile and enterprising as her favorite saint. Though born in France  she grew up in Chile  where Spanish ways of life and thought became second-nature to her. On her return to France  at the age of twenty  she married the novelist Jean Prevost  brought up three children  traveled extensively  published several novels herself  and founded and edited Marie-Claire  an outstandingly successful womans journal.  All through her life Marcelle Auclair assiduously studied the writings of Teresa of Avila. She admired in her an essentially modern woman: inventive  practical  gallant and intrepid  with tremendous organizational capacities  whose genius permitted her to break through the restrictions of her time. Madame Auclair decided to retranslate the saints writings and to write her life. With characteristic determination  she attempted to obtain the seemingly impossible (it had never been done before)  an authorization from the Holy See to enter the Carmelite cloisters in Spain and to gather authentic background material for her projected work. The permission was granted. On her return to Paris she gave up all her professional obligations and for two years virtually went into retreat  devoting her entire time to the accomplishment of what is no doubt the most vivid existing biography of this great saint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665884504117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0932506674","price":38.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780932506672.jpg?v=1782412547","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/saint-teresa-of-avila-9780932506672","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}