As reported in the New York Post, a group of Discalced Carmelites, a mendicant order of Catholicism, reopened the tomb of St.

The saint, also known as St. Teresa of Avila, was a Discalced Carmelite nun who died in 1582. The diocese, which is located ...

Experts say an analysis of her body will enlighten them to future preservation tactics. The body of a medieval Catholic saint ...

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The silver coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened in Alba de Tormes Aug. 28 only to confirm her body has remained incorrupt ...

The silver coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened in Alba de Tormes Aug. 28 only to confirm her body has remained incorrupt since her death in 1582. The open ...

The discovery of a "perfectly preserved" saint who died 450 years ago has been hailed an archeological "miracle". Experts ...

Suffering, in the sense of adversity, is written into nature. Plants do not receive enough moisture. Animals consume other ...

Donna Freitas’s spiritual autobiography, Wishful Thinking: How I Lost My Faith and Why I Want to Find It, stands in the tradition of the “dark-night-of-the-soul” memoir. But unlike mystics such as St.

The interview took place in the historic Budapest Inner-City Mother Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, the oldest Catholic ...