Alba de Tormes, sepulcro de Santa Teresa

[emr1940]

Visité hace tiempo su torreón que, hoy me entero, que la Casa de Alba cedió al ayuntamiento para su cuidado y explotación. Si es verdad esto, no todo es negativo en la vida de la Duquesa.

[lorajose2010]

santa terezinha rogai por nos,amem

[companionprayer]

I don't know about the story , I thought there was something else about nuts from a tree. A miracle with nuts.

[companionprayer]

Saint Teresa died in 1582 after proclaiming that she was "a daughter of the Church". Her body was buried in a wooden coffin. After nine months it was exhumed and to everyone's amazement, though her clothes were decaying, her body was incorrupt. While the Carmelite nuns reclothed her a

[companionprayer]

delightful perfume spread throughout the monastery. Later, her heart was removed to be enclosed in a crystal vessel and placed in a jeweled silver reliquary. When this was being done they beheld a glorious and wonderful sight: a wound from the angel's dart was visible! It can still be seen today at the Carmelite Monastery of Alba de Tormes in Spain. Her heart has kept it's color and since the nineteenth century three sharp thorns are visible at the base of the heart.