The Book Of The Foundations
Of S. Teresa Of Jesus
Of The Order
Of Our Lady Of Carmel
With
The Visitation Of Nunneries,
The Rule And Constitutions
Written By Herself
Author: Teresa, of Avila, Saint,
1515-1582;
Translated From The Spanish
By David Lewis
Lewis, David, 1814-1895;
Zimmerman, Benedict, 1859-1937
not_in_copyright ________________________
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNDATIONS
OF S. TERESA
Nil Obstat:
Edwardus Myers
Censor Deputatits
Imprimatur:
Edm: Can; Surmont
Vic. Gen.
Westmonastery
January 1913.
NEW AND REVISED EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION BY
VERY REV. BENEDICT ZIMMERMAN
DISCALCED CARMELITE
DECOR CARMELI ET SARON
M C M X I I I
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The Monasteries of Friars founded
in her lifetime were these:
1. Duruelo
28 Nov. 1568
ch. xiv. 5.
2. Pastrana
13 July1569
ch. xvii. 13.
3. Mancera .
11 June, 1570
ch. xiv. 8.
4. Alcala de Henares
1 Nov., 1570
( Reforma bk. ii. ch. xliii. 5.)
5. Ahomira
24 Nov. 1571
(ib. ch. liv. 3.)
6. La Rod a .
April, 1572
(ib. bk. iv. ch. xvi. 4. )
7. Granada
19 May, 1573
( ib. bk. iii. ch. iv. 10.)
8. Penuela
29 June, 1573
( ib. ch. X. 2.)
9. Seville
5 Jan., 1574
( ib. ch. xxiii. 8.)
10. Almodovar
7 March, 1575
( ib. ch. XXXV. 5. )
11. Mount Calvary
(Corensuela)
Dec, 1576
( ib. ch. Hi. 4.)
12. Baeza
14 June, 1579
( ib. bk. iv. ch. xliv. 4.)
13. Valladolid
4th May, 1 58 1
( ib. bk. V. ch.xiii. 2. )
14. Salamanca
1 June, 1581
( ib. ch. xvii. 3. )
15. Lisbon
19 Feb., 1582
( ib. ch. xxiv. 3. )
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Of these monasteries
two were abandoned for a time ;
the friars removed
- from Duruelo
to Mancera,
and
- from Penuela
to Mount Calvary or Corensuela,
but they returned to both places afterwards.
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The Monasteries of the Nuns
were these:
1. Avila.
24 August, 1562
at Avila ______________ 2. Medina del Campo
15 August, 1567
( Life ch. XXXV. 4. )
( Foundations ch. iii. 8. )
at Medina
______________
3. Malagon
11 April, 1568
( ib. ch. ix. 5. )
at Malagon
______________
4. Valladolid
15 August, I 568
( ib. ch. X. 6. )
Monastery of the Conception of Our Lady of Carmel at Valladolid
______________
5. Toledo
14 May, 1569
( ib.ch.x. 10, note. )
Monastery of St. Joseph at Toledo
______________
6. Pastrana
9 July S 1569
( Reforma bk. ii. ch. xxviii. 7. )
Monastery of Our Lady
of the Conception at Pastrana ______________
7. Salamanca
1 Nov. 1570
( Foundations ch. xix. 2. )
Monastery of St. Joseph at Salamanca
______________
8. Alba de Tormes
25 Jan. 157 1
( ib. ch. xx. 12. )
Monastery of Our Lady of the Annunciation
at Alba de Tormes
______________
9. Segovia
19 March, 1574
( ib. ch. xxi. 4. )
Monastery of St. Joseph at Segovia ______________
10. Beas (Veas)
25 Feb., 1575
( ib. ch. xxii. 4. )
Monastery of St. Joseph of the Redeemer at Beas ______________
11. Seville
29 May, 1575
( ib. ch. xxiv. 12. )
Monastery of St. Joseph of Carmel at Seville ______________
12. Caravaca
1 January, 1576
( ib. ch. xxviii. 7. )
Monastery of St. Joseph
at Caravaca
______________
13. Villanueva de la Jara
21 Feb., 1580
( ib. ch. xxviii. 31. )
Monastery of St. Anne
at Villanueva de la Jara
_______________ 14. Palencia
29 Dec, 1580
( ib. ch. xxix. 8. )
Monastery of St. Joseph
at Palencia
_____________
15. Soria
3 June, 1581
( ib. ch. xxx. 8. )
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Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity
at Soria
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16. Granada
20 Jan., 1582
( Reforma bk. v. ch. xxiii. 4. )
Monastery of St Joseph at Granada ______________
17. Burgos
22 April, 1582
( Foundations ch. xxxi. 41. )
Monastery of St. Joseph of St. Anne
at Burgos
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But two of these foundations
were made in the absence of the Saint.
That of Caravaca
was made when she was in Seville,
unable to leave her sisters
because of the straits they were in.
She, however,
made all the necessary preparations,
and
chose the nuns who were to live there.
That of Granada was made
by Anne of Jesus
with the help of S. John of the Cross,
S. Teresa,
being at the time,
unable to make the journey
because of the foundation
to be made in Burgos.
She, however,
chose the nuns
to be sent with Anne of Jesus,
and, among others,'
gave her Antonia of the Holy Ghost,
one of the four nuns
who took the habit in S. Joseph's
when that house was founded
in 1562.
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"S. Teresa,
having founded the two houses of friars
according to the permission
of the general,
gives no account herself
of the other houses
which were founded afterwards, and
which were thirteen in number.
She had probably
less to do with them
than with the monasteries of nuns,
though she was not unconcerned in them.
She founded and directed
seventeen monasteries of nuns
in the course of twenty years…"
| . End of excerpts from the Introduction of "The Book of the Foundations" regarding the founding of the various Monasteries . |
