Ebook Santa Teresa

WE who, like Fray Luis de Leon, did not know the Mother Teresa on this earth, and can only judge of her by her works, may well wonder what manner of woman was the Castilian nun, whom even Voltaire praised, who exercised such an in?uence over Ferdinand de Toledo, the stern Duke of Alba, and the gloomy Philip II., and has so stamped her self into Castilian life, that to this day her votaries sign themselves su amigo Teresiano in writing to one another.