# Teresa of Ávila

- Id: `teresa_of_avila`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/teresa-of-avila/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `52e4d2c03ea5ef179ddbbd1b15a4ca96149628797b132dad4c12d9dc5f9d8e87`

## Summary

Teresa of Ávila describes prayer as friendship rather than escape. She tests inner experience by humility, counsel and its effects on conduct, then turns contemplation into the demanding institutional work of Carmelite reform.

## Overview

Teresa died at Alba de Tormes in October 1582.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1515-1582",
    "era": "Renaissance",
    "distance": "444–511 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 67
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "christianity",
    "name": "Christianity",
    "detail": "Christian mysticism and Carmelite reform",
    "labels": [
        "Christianity",
        "Christian mysticism and Carmelite reform"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1582,
    "display": "1582 CE",
    "reason": "Teresa died at Alba de Tormes in October 1582."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 40,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "es",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 1
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Ávila",
        "period": "1515-1567",
        "description": "Birthplace, Monastery of the Incarnation, writing and the Saint Joseph foundation.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20110202.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Duruelo",
        "period": "1568",
        "description": "Early male reform foundation associated with collaboration with John of the Cross.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20110202.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Alba de Tormes",
        "period": "1582",
        "description": "Place of death in October 1582.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20110202.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Burgos",
        "period": "1582",
        "description": "Her final Carmelite foundation before the return journey on which she died.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20110202.html"
    }
]
```