![]() She died in 1582, after a three-year illness. After five years, despite ill health and official opposition, she began energetically to spread the reform to other parts of Spain. ![]() In 1562 a reformed convent was established in Ávila under her direction. Her order was relatively lax in its rules, and she felt impelled to begin a reform. However, she had already felt the call to contemplation, and at about the age of forty, after a long struggle, she received a second "conversion," which turned her toward an intense practice of contemplation. ![]() In 1535 she entered a Carmelite convent there and four years later was prostrated by a long illness, probably of psychological origin. ![]() Teresa of Ávila, the Spanish mystic, was born of an aristocratic family in Ávila. ![]()
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