# Teresa of Ávila

> A sixteenth-century Carmelite nun who mapped the interior life with such precision that the Catholic Church waited four centuries, then named her its first female Doctor — recognition that her writings on mystical experience had shaped Christian spirituality as doctrine, not just devotion.

*Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/teresa-of-avila

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1515-03-28
- **Died:** 1582-10-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada on 28 March 1515, she entered the Carmelite order and became the driving force behind a movement to reform it during the Counter-Reformation, splitting both the male and female branches into the Discalced Carmelites with the help of the younger friar John of the Cross. A formal papal decree made the split official in 1580. Her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, written as a defense of her ecstatic visions, laid out four stages in the soul's ascent to God; The Interior Castle later offered her Carmelite sisters a spiritual roadmap through seven mansions of the soul. She died on 4 or 15 October 1582, was canonized in 1622, and in 1970 Pope Paul VI declared her the first woman ever granted the title Doctor of the Church.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 72.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 26.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 11.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #86

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Philosophy, #Poetry, #Religion, #Spain, #Europe

## Sources
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- [Tereza el Avilo](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tereza_el_Avilo)
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- [Teresa Ávilast](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_%C3%81vilast)
- [Teresa Ávilakoa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_%C3%81vilakoa)
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- [Ávilan Teresa](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81vilan_Teresa)
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- [Teresa fan Ávila](https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_fan_%C3%81vila)
- [Naomh Treasa de Ávila](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomh_Treasa_de_%C3%81vila)
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- [Wikiquote](https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teresa_de_Jes%C3%BAs)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila)

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