The silver coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened in Alba de Tormes Aug. 28 only to confirm her body has remained incorrupt since her death in 1582. The opening of her tomb marks the beginning of a ...

A surprising amount of my downtime as a lay missionary in Burma was spent playing chess with kids. I’m hardly what anyone would call a “chess master.” I’m more of a “chess booster.” I like the game.

ALBA DE TORMES, Spain — They lined up to see her, silent and wonderstruck: Inside an open silver casket was Saint Teresa of Ávila, more than 440 years after her death. Catholic worshippers have been ...

OPENING of the silver tomb of St. Teresa of Ávila; portrait of St. Teresa of Ávila. The Diocese of Ávila in Spain reported on August 28, 2024, that the body of St. Teresa of Ávila, a doctor of the ...

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 Doctor ...

The experience of the 16th-century Doctor of the Church, St. Teresa of Avila, still shows people that time in prayer opens “the way to life,” loving God and his Church, and showing genuine charity on ...

“The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila” is considered among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The “Life” is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a ...

The St. Teresa of Avila Conference, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a nonprofit organization that helps those living in poverty, was awarded a $20,000 Systemic Change Grant from St. […] ...

With the city in the grip of a brutal freeze, perhaps more than 150 coats are there for the taking at Saint Teresa of Avila Church on Central Avenue. Donors dropped them into collection boxes at area ...