Events Tagged: "Carmelite"

Birth of St. Teresa of Ávila in Spain - future Doctor of the Church and reformer of Carmelites

Birth of St. John of the Cross at Fontiveros - future Doctor of the Church and mystical poet

St. John of the Cross meets St. Teresa - begins Carmelite reform for men - Will suffer imprisonment - 'In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone'

St. Thérèse enters Carmel at Lisieux at age 15 - begins her 'little way' of spiritual childhood