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The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by Saint of Avila Teresa
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Histoire de Sainte Therese d'apres les Bollandistes. 2 vols,
Nantes, 1882. Frequently reprinted. The author is
Mlle. Adelaide Lecornu (born 5 July, 1852, died at the Carmelite
convent at Caen, 14 December, 1901. Her name in religion was
Adelaide-Jeronyme-Zoe-Marie du Sacre-Coeur).

An excellent character sketch of the Saint has appeared in the
"Les Saints" series (Paris, Lecoffre, 1901):

Sainte Therese, par Henri Joly.

Although the attempt at explaining the extraordinary phenomena in
the life of St. Teresa by animal Magnetism and similar obscure
theories had already been exploded by the Bollandists, it has
lately been revived by Professor Don Arturo Perales Gutierrez of
Granada, and Professor Don Fernando Segundo Brieva Salvatierra of
Madrid, who considered her a subject of hysterical derangements.
The discussion carried on for some time, not only in Spain but
also in France, Germany, and other countries, has been ably
summed up and disposed of by P. Gregoire de S. Joseph:
La pretendue Hysterie de Sainte Therese. Lyons.

The Bibliographie Theresienne, by Henry de Curzon (Paris, 1902)
is, unfortunately, too incomplete, not to say slovenly, to be of
much use.

Finally, it is necessary to say a word about the spelling of the
name Teresa. In Spanish and Italian it should be written without
an h as these languages do not admit the use of Th; in English,
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