Levitation was the last thing Teresa of Avila wanted. It drew the wrong kind of attention and embarrassed her in public. She tried to remain grounded, clinging to furniture when the weightlessness set in, and then suddenly, it stopped for good. Carlos Eire reads Teresa's autobiographic *Vida* and finds the 16th-century saint complaining to God about the aethrobatic miracles that he forced her to endure.
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St. Teresa of Avila
Ad Imaginem Dei: Teresa of Avila – Mystic, Practical Woman, Doctor of the Church
The privy as receptacle of secrets—A medieval monk seduces a nun, who has an illegitimate baby. She disposes off the baby in the privy.” From the Miracles of Nostre Dame, The Hague
Teresa of Avila: Living a Life of Humility – Carmelite Institute of North America
Full article: Did Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?
What happens to those left behind after the rapture? - Quora
Full article: Did Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?
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Church celebrates St. Teresa of Avila, mystic and reformer, Oct. 15
Notebook of Demons by Juan Tzankoff - Issuu
The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures – The Public Domain Review
Saint Teresa of Avila's Demonic Experience that Proved the Power of Holy Water
The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures – The Public Domain Review