Sister Teresa: The Woman Who Became Spain's Most Beloved Saint

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Spoiled with beauty riches and adoration a young girl from vila is sent to a convent by her parents to learn discipline but discovers instead an unparalleled spiritual fervor-- one so powerful as to be condemned as sinful by some. 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 Mujicas 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 Mujicas tale conjures a brilliant picture of sisterhood faith the terror of religious persecution the miracle of salvation and to one womans challenge to the power of strict orthodoxy a challenge that consisted of a crime of passion--her own personal relationship with God.