Sister Teresa: The Woman Who Became Spain's Most Beloved Saint

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Harry N. Abrams, Mar 22, 2007 - Fiction - 336 pages
A tale inspired by the life of the beloved Spanish saint describes how a wealthy young girl from vila is sent to a convent by her parents in order to learn discipline but instead discovers within herself a spiritual fervor that is alternately criticized and admired by a society that is in the throes of the repressive Spanish Inquisition.

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Section 1
21
Section 2
39
Section 3
64
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Bárbara Mujica is a novelist, short story writer, critic, professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, and a contributor to many publications, such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of the novels The Deaths of Don Bernardo, Frida, and Sister Teresa, and lives in Washington, D.C.

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