English poet Richard Crashaw, for example, penned “Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa” and “Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa” in her honor. Indeed, her works, which included El camino de perfección and El castillo interior were also translated into Italian, German, and Dutch, reaching readers far beyond the convent walls of early modern Spain. First translated into French in 1604 and into English in 1611, it circulated in many editions throughout Europe and even the new world. This she did, revising her life story twice, which she completed in 1565 as El libro de la vida. Teresa’s first book was due to her confessors’ request that she write her autobiography in order to explain her life as both a mystic and a reformer of the Carmelite order. Indeed, her autobiography, letters, religious treatises, and lyrical poetry influenced both male and female readers across Europe.
Her writings, although intended mainly for her nuns’ didactic purposes, are considered outstanding exemplars of mystical literature. Image:Avila.jpg?The Spanish nun and reformer Teresa de Ahumada (1515-1582) is justly known as one of the most important Catholic mystics of early modern Spain.
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