These are substantially the same with those drawn up by the
Bollandists, but they are fuller and more minute, and furnish a
more detailed history of the Saint.


1515. St. Teresa is born in Avila, March 28th. [1]

1522. She desires martyrdom, and leaves her father's house with
one of her brothers.

1527. [2] Death of her mother.

1529. Writes romances of chivalry, and is misled by a
thoughtless cousin.

1531. Her sister Maria's marriage, and her removal from home to
the Augustinian monastery, where she remains till the autumn of
next year.

1533. [3] Nov. 2, enters the monastery of the Incarnation.

1534. Nov. 3, makes her profession.

1535. Goes to Castellanos de la Canada, to her sister's house,
where she remains till the spring of 1536, when she goes
to Bezadas.

1537. Returns to Avila on Palm Sunday. In July seriously ill,
and in a trance for four days, when in her father's house.
Paralysed for more than two years.