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How does Saint Teresa of Avila influence our lives today?

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If you mean St. Teresa of Avila:

Her books are still in circulation (The Interior Castle, Life, etc. She wrote seven). She influenced Dorothy Day and is the namesake of St. Therese de Lisieux (and indirectly Mother Teresa). She reformed the Carmelite nuns, which is an order of nuns that still exists and has greatly grown. If it weren't for her effort in reforming the Carmelites and the Catholic Church as a whole (through the council of Trent and her books) I don't know where we'd be. People pray for her intercession. Her body has not deteriorated since her death (that doesn't really influence our life other than the fact that it is a pretty big miracle). She is a Doctor of the Church (one of only three women given that title).

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Nada turbe,

Nada te espante,

todo se pasa,

Dios no se muda;

la paciencia

todo lo alcanza;

quien a Dios tiene

nada le falta:

Sólo Dios basta. -Santa Teresa de Ávila

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