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The 12 pages that link to Teresa of Ávila, each with the reason it gives.

• Counter-ReformationRelated: Her reforms exemplify the movement’s renewal of religious life from within.

• Christian mysticismRelated: Her detailed accounts made interior prayer central to later Christian mystical teaching.

• Contemplative prayerRelated: Her works present contemplative prayer as a developing relationship with God.

• ConversoRelated: Her ancestry made lineage a subject of scrutiny despite her Catholic standing.

• John of the CrossRelated: Teresa recruited John to help reform the Carmelite order.

• Carmelite OrderRelated: Her reform and writings profoundly shaped the order’s contemplative tradition.

• Ecstasy of Saint TeresaRelated: Bernini depicts her describing the vision in her autobiography.

• Richard CrashawRelated: Crashaw’s poems repeatedly celebrate Teresa, whose mystical devotion captured his poetic imagination.

• John of ÁvilaRelated: She corresponded with John and valued his counsel on spiritual matters.