of S. Teresa of Jesus
of the Order of our Lady of Carmel
Discussion of Chapter 25 XXV
Chapter 25 Contents
- The Foundation Of
The Glorious S. Joseph
Of Seville Continued.
- What Happened When Getting A House
Of Our Own
1. Troubles and discouragements. —
2. Abandonment of the Saint. —
3. Her brother returns from the Indies. —
4. Difficulties in finding a good house. —
5. A house found. —
6. Difficulties of taking possession. —
7. The Saint takes possession
of the new house. —
8. Troubles of Don Lorenzo. —
9. The church arranged. —
10. Preparations for the opening. —
11. Solemnities of the opening —
12. A miracle.
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Discussion of Chapter 25
█ Summary
The chapter headings of Chapters
23, 24, 25, and 26
reference the foundation at Sevillle
▀ The Seville Foundations's First Site
The Foundation of S. Joseph of Carmel
in the City of Seville was founded
on May 29, 1575
on the feast of The Most Holy Trinity:
■ Difficuties in Seville at the first site
■ St Teresa's Faith in God
▀ Relocation of the Foundation
to a new site in Seville
■ A possible 2nd site was found
but was soon dismissed
but was soon dismissed
■ A new and more suitable site is found
"29th April 1576 *
"In the beginning of May *
The first Mass offered on 29th April 1576 *
■ Making Known the new Monastery site
June 3, 1576
▀ St. Teresa directs her Carmelites to pray
for those who have helped them
▀ Status of Teresa Peregrinations
current to this chapter
* dates are approximate (?)
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▀ The Seville Foundations's First Site
The Foundation of S. Joseph of Carmel
in the City of Seville
▪ "The first Mass of this Foundation
was offered on May 29, 1575
on the feast of
the Most Holy Trinity"
[ Foundations: Ch. 24: #12 ]
"Mass had been said
with the archbishop's leave...
It was one of his chaplains
whom he had sent
to say the first Mass."
[ Foundations: Ch. 24: #13 ]
▪ A house is found and rented
"the house in Seville,
which the Father Fray Mariano
had hired for us
[ Foundations: Ch. 24: #3 ]
▪ The Prioress
"Mary of S. Joseph (Salazar)
nun of Malagon,
The Saint took her to Veas
and afterwards to Seville,
where she made her prioress"
[ Foundations: Ch. 25:
Foot note: #9 ]
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▀ Relocation of the Foundation
to a new site in Seville
▪ "I never thought of buying a house,
and I had not the means of doing so,
neither was there any one
who would be surety for us.
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #2 ]
▪ "It pleased God that a brother of mine,
Lorenzo de Cepeda
arrived at this time from the Indies
He took it more to heart than I did
that the nuns had no house
of their own"
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #3 ]
▪ St. Teresa, because of her obedience
to her Superiors in the capacity of
Prioress of the Monastery
of St. Joseph in Avila, as well as,
the need to assist other foundations
(old and new)
knew she would need to leave Seville.
She hoped to see the nuns in Seville
in permanent housing of their own.
"It was a very great grief to me
to leave the nuns
without a house of their own,
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #2 ]
"I, too, was then much more urgent
in my prayers to our Lord,
begging Him
not to let me leave them
without a house,
and I made the sisters pray to Him
for the same object,
and to the glorious S. Joseph"
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #3 ]
"Relying on these,
and
seeing my brother bent on helping us,
I began to treat
about the purchase of certain houses"
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #3 ]
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▀ St. Teresa directs her nuns to pray
for the Prior of the Carthusians of Las Cuevas,
Don Fernando de Pantoja,
and
for those who have helped them,
whom "we owe much".
"It is only reasonable...my sisters...
that you should pray to God
for one who has done so much for us,
and
for others also,
whether he be living or dead.
...I write this for that end:
to this holy man we owe much."
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #8 ]
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▀ Status of Teresa Peregrinations
current to this chapter
▪ St. Teresa seems to have written
this chapters on the Seville foundation
around September of 1576 in Toledo:
"1576
"In Toledo the Saint continues
the Book of the Foundations
as far as ch. xxvii, (ch 27)
adding to it the account
of the foundations of
Segovia, Veas,
Seville, and Caravaca"
[ Foundations: Introduction:
Annals of the Saint's Life" ]
And St. Teresa does,
by her remarks in Paragraph #2,
refer to being in the area of castille
during this account:
"for that grace
which God gives me here..." [6]
"In Castille"
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #2
& Foot note #6 ]
▪ Her stay in Seville
She arrived Thursday, May 26, 1575
and left Seville on June 4, 1576
"I remained there
from the time
already mentioned
till a little before Lent" [3]
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #2 ]
"Ash Wednesday fell
on 7th March in 1576,
and
the Saint had arrived in Seville
on Thursday, 26th May 1575.
See ch. xxiv. 9. "
[ Foundations: Ch. 25:
Foot note #3 ]
Perhaps the reference to
"till a little before Lent"
was the time that they stayed
at the hired house in Seville,
the first site of the monastery.
From Paragraph #7, #8,
and Foot note #12,
it seems that they occupied
the new (2nd) site on La Pageria
on or about 29th April 1576
but had bought it 1 month
prior to that.
"We were in this trouble
for more than a month"
( waiting to move in)
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #6 ]
"The Saint left Seville
4th June 1576
attended by her brother,
Don Lorenzo (and)
Fr. Gregorio Nazianzen"
[ Foundations: Ch. 26:
Foot note #1 ]
( The 2nd site in Seville was
announced on June 3, 1576
with solemn procession)
"And now the time was come
to order me to leave Andalucia,
for other matters
were now pressing here." [5]
[ Foundations: Ch. 25: #2 ]
"The Saint had now been ordered
by the provincial to
leave Seville
and
take up her residence
in some other monastery,
the choice of which was,
however, left to her.
[ Foundations: Ch. 25:
Foot note #5 ]
At the end of 1575,
"Fray Angel de Salazar,
provincial of Castille,
bids the Saint
make no more foundations,
and
orders her further to withdraw
into any one of her monasteries,
and there to remain.
She proposes to withdraw
to Valladolid at once,
leaving the foundation
of Seville in its troubles,
but Fray Jerome bids her stay
for the present where she is,
[ Foundations: Introduction:
Annals of the Saint's Life ]
"4th June (1576)
She sets out for Toledo...
[ Foundations: Introduction:
Annals of the Saint's Life ]
"She was in Malagon on
the 11th,
where she was still
in the beginning of July.
By order of Fray Jerome
she went to Avila
to complete the term
of her priorship,
after which she ought to
have gone to Salamanca
where she was conventual.
But it was finally decided
she should go to Toledo,
whither she went,
bringing with her
as her companion and
secretary the venerable
Ann of S. Bartholomew.
On the 9th day of August
the Saint was in Toledo."
[ Foundations: Ch. 26:
Foot note #1 ]
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End of the Discussion
of Chapter 25
of the
Book of the Foundations
of S. Teresa of Jesus
of the Order of our Lady of Carmel
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