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'One of the things that makes me happy here,' wrote Teresa from her foundation in Seville, 'is that there is no suggestion of that nonsense about my supposed sanctity.' None the less, the world persisted in believing her to be a saint. Her autobiography tells how a self willed and hysterically unbalanced woman was entirely transformed by profound religious experiences; it is also a literary masterpiece and, after Don Quixote, the most widely read prose classic of Spain. Paperback.
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