15th October - Saint Teresa of Avila - Independent Catholic News

15th October - Saint Teresa of Avila - Independent Catholic News: Foundress of the reformed (Discalced) Carmelites. St Teresa was born in 1515 to an aristocratic family in Avila. As a child she showed precocious piety by playing at hermitages with her younger brother. The pair once ran away from home, hoping to go to Morocco and die as martyrs. After her mother's death when she was just 14, Teresa went through a spell of being very interested in boys and clothes. She was sent to be educated by