Gray Horizon: A Dr. Whyte Adventure

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Theresa of Ávila, Edith Stein, Thérèse of Lisieux, Lúcia Santos, Louise de La Vallière, Mariam Baouardy, Bernadette Roberts, Juana Inés de La Cruz, Princess Louise Marie of France, Marie of the Incarnation, Magdalena de Pazzi, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Marie of St Peter, Blessed Candlemas of San José, Teresa of the Andes, Martyrs of Compiègne, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, Jessica Powers, Anne of Saint Bartholomew, María Luisa Josefa, Françoise D'amboise, Josefina Constantino, Mother Veronica of the Passion, Magdalen of Canossa, Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Archangela Girlani, Rose-Chrétien de La Neuville, Marie-Geneviève Meunier. Excerpt: Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew, O.C.D. , (b. at Almendral , Old Castile , 1 October 1550; d. at Antwerp , 7 June 1626) was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun , and companion to Saint Teresa of Avila . Life Born Ana García, she was of humble origin and spent her youth in solitude and prayer tending flocks. When she first went to Ávila to enter the Carmelite convent, she was refused as being too young; for several years after, she suffered much at the hands of her brothers. She later entered the convent as lay sister and made her vows on 15 August 1572. For the next ten years she filled the post of infirmarian; she now became the almost inseparable companion and secretary of St. Teresa, who died in her arms at Alba de Tormes in 1582. Anne afterwards returned to Avila, took part in the foundation of a convent at Ocana (1595), and was one of the seven nuns selected for the introduction of the order into France (October, 1604). The French superiors, desirous of sending her as prioress to Pontoise , obliged her to pass from the state...