St Teresa of Avila / F A Forbes

A short, popular biography of the Saint who reformed Carmel and gave a host of Saints to the Church. Strong-willed as a child, she channeled that determination into becoming holy and became as a result one of the most famous Saints of the Church and one of the most renowned and colorful women in history. When Teresa entered Carmel, the rule was very lax. She helped bring back the original, strict observance, founded numerous new convents, became a celebrated mystic, wrote her massive Autobiography, also wrote The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle to chart the realm of the interior life, was canonized only 40 years later, and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970. Here is a popular biography for young and old of this popular and colorful Saint.