3. There is a difficulty about this. The Bollandists maintain
that she went to the monastery of the Incarnation in the year
1533. On the other hand Ribera, her most accurate
biographer--with whom Fra Jerome agrees,--says that she left her
father's house in 1535, when she was more than twenty years of
age; Yepes, that she was not yet twenty; and the Second Relation
of the Rota, that she was in her twentieth year. The Bull of
Canonisation and the Office in the Breviary also say that she was
in her twentieth year, that is, A.D. 1534. The Chronicler of the
Order differs from all and assigns the year 1536 as the year in
which she entered the monastery.





The Life
of the
Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus.
Written by Herself.


Prologue.


As I have been commanded and left at liberty to describe at
length my way of prayer, and the workings of the grace of our
Lord within me, I could wish that I had been allowed at the same
time to speak distinctly and in detail of my grievous sins and