Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

23. Way, 19:15, CW 2:113.

24. Ibid.

25. VI D, 9:2, CW 2:411.

19. FROM HELL TO FOUNDATION

1. Life, 32:3, CW 1:277.

2. V D, 3:10, CW 2:352.

3. Way, Prologue, CW 2:40.

4. Life, 22:10, CW 1:195.

5. Letter 402, to Jerome Gratian, July 14, 1581, CL 2:445.

6. Life, 32:1–3, CW 1:276–77.

7. On Paul Claudel’s attitude to St. Teresa, see Paul Claudel, Journal, vol. 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1968), 306–11.

21. SAINT JOSEPH, THE VIRGIN MARY, AND HIS MAJESTY

1. The deewan of the Persian mystic and teacher Mansur al-Hallaj (858–922) have not been translated into English in their entirety. This fragment is my rendering of Louis Massignon’s 1955 translation in Husayn Mansür Hallaj, Dîwân (Paris: Seuil, 1981), 114 (LSF).

2. Life, 40:1, CW 1:354.

3. Life, 32:11, CW 1:280–81.

4. Life, 33:2, CW 1:285.

5. I D, 1:5, CW 2:285.

6. Life, 39:8, CW 1:345–46.

7. Testimonies, 3:10, CW 1:384.

8. Life, 37:7, CW 1:326.

9. Life, 40:4, CW 1:355–56.

10. Letter 24, to Lorenzo de Cepeda, January 17, 1570, CL 1:83.

11. Life, 33:5, CW 1:286–87.

12. Life, 33:7–8, CW 1:288.

13. Life, 33:9, CW 1:288–89.

14. Life, 33:10, CW 1:289.

15. Life, 38:15, CW 1:335.

16. Life, 40:13–14, CW 1:359.

17. Life, 33:11, CW 1:289–90 (sentence order rearranged to comply with original).

18. Life, 33:12, CW 1:290.

19. Life, 33:14–15, CW 1:291–92.

20. Ibid.

22. THE MATERNAL VOCATION

1. Quoted by Marcelle Auclair, Thérèse d’Avila, Œuvres complètes (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1964), 111.

2. Letter 41, to María de Mendoza, March 7, 1572, CL 1:119.

3. Testimonies, 3:6, CW 1:383.

4. Letter 2, to Lorenzo de Cepeda, Quito, December 23, 1561, CW 1:32–33.

5. Life, 34:1–4, CW 1:293–95.

6. Life, 38:4, CW 1:331.

7. Life, 34:4, CW 1:295.

8. Testimonies, 2:4, CW 1:381.

9. Life, 34:7, CW 1:296.

10. Life, 37:5, CW 1:325.

11. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1885; Project Gutenberg), second part, chap. 54, trans. John Ormsby, www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/996/pg996.html. Release date July 27, 2004. Accessed November 11, 2012.

12. Life, 36:18, CW 1:317.

13. Life, 36:6–7, CW 1:311–12.

14. Life, 36:11–13, CW 1:314–15.

15. Life, 36:14, CW 1:316.

16. Life, 36:15, CW 1:316.

17. Life, 36:16, CW 1:317.

18. Life, 36:22, CW 1:319–20.

19. Life, 33:15, CW 1:292.

20. Life, 36:24, CW 1:320.

21. Life, 39:26, CW 1:353.

22. Way, 31:9–10, CW 2:156–57.

23. Testimonies, 15, CW 1:393.

24. Ibid.

25. The verb entrañar in Spanish connotes intimacy, love, affection; it means to “embrace with passionate strength.” It also has a very “visceral” dimension, as entrañas are “entrails,” and the verb entrañarse suggests a total, intimate union with a person. The Spanish mystics used this term to describe union with Christ. Thus fray Luis de León: “Nomb. de Crist. en el del Hijo. Entonces entra en nuestra alma su mismo espíritu, que entrando se entraña en ella y produce en ella luego su gracia.”

26. Soliloquies, 17:3–5, CW 1:462–63.

27. V D, 2:5, CW 2:343.

28. Life, 36:29, CW 1:321–22.

29. Life, 38:1, CW 1:329–30.

23. CONSTITUTING TIME

1. The Constitutions: 1567.

2. The Way of Perfection: 1566–1567.

3. The Book of Her Foundations: 1568–1582.

4. Ignatius Loyola: 1491–1556.

5. Michel de Montaigne: 1533–1592.

6. Way, 1:2, CW 2:41.

7. Life, 35:2, CW 1:303.

8. Const., 1, CW 3:319.

9. Const., 3, CW 3:319.

10. Const., 15, CW 3:323.

11. Const., 10, CW 3:321–22.

12. Const., 11–14, CW 3:322–23.

13. Way, 9:2, CW 2:74.

14. Way, 4:7, CW 2:55.

15. Const., 28, CW 3:328.

16. Way, 7:4, CW 2:67.

17. Const., 26, CW 3:327.

18. Const., 26–7, CW 3:327–28.

19. Const., 8, CW 3:321.

20. Const., 22, CW 3:326.

21. Way, 4:4, CW 2:54.

22. Way, 6:1–7, CW 2:62–64.

23. Way, 4:2, CW 2:53.

24. Way, 24:4, CW 2:129.

25. Ibid.

26. Way, 24:5–6, CW 2:130.

27. Way, 24:2, CW 2:129.

28. Way, 31:10, CW 2:157.

29. Way, 36:9, CW 2:181.

30. Life, 25:3, CW 1:214.

31. Way, 31:10, CW 2:157.

32. Way, 19:2, CW 2:107.

33. Way, 19:3–4, CW 2:108.

34. Ibid.

35. Way, 12:1, CW 2:81–82.

36. Way, 11:5, CW 2:81.

37. Life, 25:14, CW 1:220.

38. Life, 25:10, CW 1:217.

39. Letters 124 and 155, CL 1:333, 154.

40. VI D, 4:4–5, CW 2:380.

41. Life, 25:15, CW 1:220.

42. Life, 25:20, CW 1:222.

43. Life, 39:17–18, CW 1:349–50.

44. Critique, “Búscate en mí,” CW 3:359.

45. Found., 1:1, CW 3:99.

46. Monteverdi: 1567–1643.

47. Petrarch: 1304–1374.

48. Giulio Strozzi: 1583–ca. 1660.

24. TUTTI A CAVALLO

1. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1885; Project Gutenberg), second part, chap. 4, trans. John Ormsby, www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/996/pg996.html. Release date July 27, 2004. Accessed November 11, 2012.

2. Testimonies, 5, CW 1:386.

3. Letter from Juan de Ávila, April 2, 1568; see Rosa Rossi, Thérèse d’Avila (Paris: Cerf, 1989), 76.