# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teresa-of-avila
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:03:36.355Z

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name: "Teresa of Ávila"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)"
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deathDate: "1582-10-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.