of S. Teresa of Jesus
of the Order of our Lady of Carmel
Discussion of Chapter 19
Chapter 19 Contents
Continuation Of The Foundation
Of The Monastery
Of S. Joseph
In The City Of Salamanca
1. The Saint recommends
learned confessors. —
2. Nicholas Gutierrez. —
3. The Saint takes possession. —
4. Poverty of the house at first. —
5. Terrors of Sister Mary. —
6. The house is not healthy. —
7. The Saint returns to Salamanca
in August 1573. —
8. And takes possession
of the new monastery. —
9. Troubles with the owner
of the house. —
10. Who cannot come to any terms.
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Discussion of Chapter 19
█ Summary: Continuation from Chapter 18
▀ Continues Counsels to the Prioresses and nuns
▀ Continues the account
of the Foundation at Salamanca,
The Monastery of St. Joseph,
■ Regarding the Original site of this foundation
Feast of All Saints - November 1, 1570.
■ Relocation to the Second Site (1573)
Michaelmas - September 29, 1573
Feastday of St. Michael the Archangel
■ Eventual Relocation to subsequent Sites
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▀ Continues Counsels to the Prioresses and nuns
This chapter, which continues the account
of the foundation at Salamanca,
also briefly continues her Counsels to the Prioresses
regarding the importance of:
- seeking "direction
(from) learned men,
for thereby shall you find
the way of perfection
in discretion and truth".
- "hav(ing) learned men
for their confessors"
"and contriv(ing) that their nuns
go to confession to learned men"
"— if not they will do many foolish things,
thinking them to be saintly".
[ Foundations: Ch. 19: #1 ]
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▀ Continues the account
of the Foundation at Salamanca
The Monastery of St. Joseph,
the 7th convent for Discalced Carmelite Nuns
was founded at Salamanca
on November 1, 1570.
[ Foundation: Introduction]
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Excerpts From:
The Book of the Foundations:
Introduction - Annals of the Saint's Life:
1565
She completes her "Life" in May or June,
and begins the Way of Perfection.
1567
...Father-general of the order of Carmel,
Fray Juan Bautista Rubeo...
He authorises her to make other foundations
of nuns, and two of friars,
27th April, 16th May and 16th August.
1568
The General approves
the Constitutions of the nuns.
Juan of Avila approves of her book, (The Life)
and writes to her a letter, dated 12th September,
1569
Juan of Avila dies, 12th April
1570
Father Martin Gutierrez,
rector of the house of the Society in Salamanca,
writes to her 17th January,
asking her to found a monastery there
[ch. xviii. ii. ]
The bishop of Salamanca grants permission
for the foundation of her monastery.
The Saint arrives in Salamanca
on the eve of All Saints,
...founded on the feast of All Saints...
the seventh (foundation) of nuns.....
in Salamanca [ch. xix. 2].
1571
The foundation made in Alba de Tormes,
25th Jan.
[ch. XX. 12].
The Saint returns to Salamanca,
and is there at the end of March.
She now spent some time in the house
of the Count of Monterey.
She goes to Avila from Salamanca,
and is ordered by her superiors
to accept the priorate of the Incarnation
[ch. xix. 6].
She renounces the mitigated Rule.
Father Fernandez makes
supplementary Constitutions for the nuns.
She enters on her office in October,
and remains prioress for three years.
( Monastery of Incarnation - Avila )
1572
In May,
S. John of the Cross was made Confessor
to the nuns of the Incarnation.
Great graces bestowed on the Saint
while in the monastery of the Incarnation:
the mystical betrothal;
1573
She sets out for Salamanca,
with the provincial's leave,
to arrange the transfer of her community there
to a new house.
At the end of the month the princess of Eboli
goes to Pastrana,
and establishes herself as a nun
in the Carmelite monastery there
[ch. xvii. 14, note. ]
In Salamanca her confessor,
Father Jerome Ripalda,
bids her write the history of her foundations.
She begins to write 24th August.
1574
She writes the Conceptions on the Love of God.
The book of her Life is delated
to the inquisitors the first time
[ch. xvW. 12, note].
6th Oct.
She resigns the place of prioresss
in the Monastery of the Incarnation,
and returns to her own House of S. Joseph
where she is elected prioress.
...
1576
...In Toledo the Saint continues
the Book of the Foundations
as far as ch. xxvii,
adding to it the account of the foundations
of Segovia, Veas, Seville, and Caravaca,
...writes the Visitation of the Nunneries.
1577
2nd June.
She begins to write the Interior Castle
About the end of November
the book of the Interior Castle is finished."
[Foundations: Introduction:
Annals of the Saint's Life (excerpts) ]
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End of the Discussion
of Chapter 19
of the
Book of the Foundations
of S. Teresa of Jesus
of the Order of our Lady of Carmel
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