Can somebody give me the life story of Saint Teresa of Avila?
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I had to do a report on her at one point, so I know for a FACT that you can find plenty of information on her on the internet.  Do your own homework!
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Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, in the former Yugoslavia, she was the youngest of three children. In her teens, Agnes became a member of a youth group in her local pairsh called Sodality. Through her involvement with their activities guided by a Jesuit priest, Agnes became interested in missionaries. At age 17, she responded to her first call of a vocation as a Catholic missionary nun. She joined an Irish order, the Sisters of Loretto, a community known for their missionary work in India. When she took her vows as a Sister of Loretto, she chose the name Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.  \n\nIn Calcutta, Sister Teresa taught geography and cathechism at St. Mary's High School. In 1944, she became the principal of St. Mary's. Soon Sister Teresa contracted tuberculosis, was unable to continue teaching and was sent to Darjeeling for rest and recuperation. It was on the train to Darjeeling that she received her second call -- "the call within the call". Mother Teresa recalled later, "I was to leave the convent and work with the poor, living among them. It was an order. I knew where I belonged but I did not know how to get there."   \n\nIn 1948, the Vatican granted Sister Teresa permission to leave the Sisters of Loretto and pursue her calling under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Calcutta.   \n\nMother Teresa started with a school in the slums to teach the children of the poor. She also learned basic medicine and went into the homes of the sick to treat them. In 1949, some of her former pupils joined her. They found men, women, and children dying on the streets who were rejected by local hospitals. The group rented a room so they could care for helpless people otherwise condemned to die in the gutter. In 1950, the group was established by the Church as a Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese. It was known as the Missionaries of Charity.  \nIn 1952 the first Home for the Dying was opened in space made available by the City of Calcutta. Over the years, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity grew from 12 to thousands serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centers around the world. Mother Teresa created many homes for the dying and the unwanted from Calcutta to New York to Albania. She was one of the pioneers of establishing homes for AIDS victims. For more than 45 years, Mother Teresa comforted the poor, the dying, and the unwanted around the world.  \n\nIn 1966, the Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded. Homes began to open in Rome, Tanzania, and Australia. In 1971, the first home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York.   \n\nMother Teresa gained worldwide acclaim with her tireless efforts on behalf of world peace. Her work brought her numerous humanitarian awards, including : the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In receiving this award, Mother Teresa revolutionized the award ceremony. She insisted on a departure from the ceremonial banquet and asked that the funds, $6,000 be donated to the poor in Calcutta. This money would permit her to feed hundreds for a year.   \n\nShe is stated to have said that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world’s needy.   \n\nBeginning in 1980, homes began to spring-up for drug addicts, prostitutes, battered women, and more orphanages and schools for poor children around the world. In 1985, Mother Teresa established the first hospice for AIDS victims in New York. Later homes were added in San Francisco and Atlanta. Mother Teresa was awarded Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award.   \n\nIn 1991, Mother Teresa returned for the first time to her native Albania (know known as Serbia) and opened a home in Tirana. By this year, there were 168 homes established in India.   \n\nOn February 3, 1994 at a National Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, in Washington, DC, Mo
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Just in case this is a homework question, which it sounds like, I am only giving you web sites so you can read the answers for yourself. You can't learn by having others do it for you. There is plenty of information here to keep you busy. The second link is a fun one.\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0857464.html\nhttp://www.castellobanfi.com/features/story_3.html\nhttp://www.franciscan-archive.org/columbus/
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a detailed biography from the man himself:\nhttp://www.dalailama.com/page.4.htm
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Well apart from being Jesus' love, Mary was a disciple and she was one of the inner circle. She was extremely intelligent, and many considered this unusual and didn't like her for it. I think much injustice has been done to her. The Catholic church has admitted that calling her a prostitute was an error (bible doesn't say this either), and now she's a saint. But she must be more than a saint and time will set things straight.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. For her humanitarian work she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 (see Nobel Prizes). In 2003, six years after her death, Mother Teresa began a passage to sainthood with her beatification by Pope John Paul II. Beatification is the first step toward canonization, the act that proclaims a person’s sainthood. \n\nAgnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born to Albanian parents in Skopje, which at the time was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. (The city is now the capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.) At the age of 18, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland. She trained in Dublin and in Dārjiling (Darjeeling), India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. She took the name Teresa from Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the patron saint of foreign missionaries. While serving as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Mother Teresa was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city's streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick.\n\nIn 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity. The order was later recognized as a pontifical congregation under the jurisdiction of Rome. Members of the congregation take four vows on acceptance by the religious community. In addition to the three basic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, a fourth vow is required pledging service to the poor, whom Mother Teresa described as the embodiment of Christ.\n\nIn 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. She eventually extended her work to many other parts of the world. In recognition of her efforts, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was forced to scale back her activities in 1990 because of declining health. Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, a collection of her anecdotes and quotations, was published in 1996. In 1997, because of Mother Teresa's poor health, Sister Nirmala was chosen to succeed her as leader of the Missionaries of Charity. Later that year, Mother Teresa passed away. People around the world mourned her death.
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A very close friend of mine, Teresa, died a while back from cancer. She was young, just starting a teaching career, full of life, enthusiasm and love for people, especially kids. She was diagnosed with cancer a few days before her wedding (not to me) and died a few weeks after their first anniversary.\n\nAt her funeral I absolutely expected God to raise her from the dead - God had done it before after all. Then we were at the graveside and still no knock on the coffin lid.\n\nWhen her coffin was lowered into the ground and I tossed my flower in on top my world collapsed. I hated God with an absolute passion. I cursed God, swore at God, I told God just how big of a b*stard "he" was. I kept going to church but I wouldn't sing or pray (although every time I abused God I was actually praying, ironic hey). I went to church for the sake of appearances - I was a longstanding youth leader at my church. I kept asking all of the WHY questions but didn't get a single answer.\n\nEventually (a couple of months later), still in my anger and bitterness, God spoke to me (understand that however you like) and said ... \n\n"Will you trust me even if you don't understand?"\n\nI didn't expect that response from God. But here I am a few years later, finally able to talk about Teresa without crying and studying to be a pastor of the Lutheran church. \n\nTime does help to heal these wounds. But being honest with God, even in your anger or confusion is also helpful. Ultimatly you probably won't get an answer to the why questions. But I hope that you can eventually receive the peace that God is offering to you in your grief.
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There's a lot of info here about it:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
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http://www.piaget.org/biography/biog.html
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It took some searching, including venturing into Yahoo en espanol (my knowledge of Spanish is limited), but I think I've found a possible "Saint Manuela".\n\nMARIA SOLEDAD TORRES ACOSTA \nAlso known as Emanuela Tores-Acosta \nMemorial: 11 October \n\nShe was a 19th-century nun born in Madrid, Spain.  Her birth name was Emanuela, which could be taken as Manuela.\n\nA Spanish-language page about her says:\n"Manuela (el nombre de bautizo de loa santa) ingresó en aquella comunidad a los 28 años y escogió el nombre de María Soledad, en honor de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad."\n\nI believe that means: Manuela (the name she received in baptism) entered the community [convent] at age 28 and took the name Maria Soledad [Mary Solitude], in honor of Our Lady of Solitude.\n\nI've also found another site about her (in Portuguese?), and got a rough computer-generated English translation from Yahoo!:\n  \n"October 11   Manuela Saint Towers Agrees\n\n  "Manuela Towers Agrees, or Soledade Saint, was born in Madrid - Spain, day 2 of December of 1826. The history of this Spanish saint is, before more nothing, a certification of faith and charity before the world. Same city died in this, day II of October of 1887. In 1851 it gave In service beginning to the religious congregation of Maria, whose purpose was to give helps to the sick people in the hospitals as nurses. Soledade saint suffered many difficulties until the definitive implantation of the new religious famfiia. It was present at the laborious moments most difficult and of Spanish history, as, for example, in the civil war and the epidemic of cólera of 1885. During the life of the saint 46 houses had been established and, currently, the Servants of Maria if they find spread by all the continents. It was canonizada by Pablo VI in 1970."
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hey,\n\ncheck these links\n\nhttp://www.carmenlomasgarza.com/biography.html\nhttp://www.tandempress.wisc.edu/tandem/gallery/lomasgarza/lomasgarza.htm\n\nPeace.
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I'm not sure I know anything about her.  It sounds quite serious though.  If you didn't already, try contacting the school to find out information.  Also, contact the Archdiocese of PA, so maybe they can look into it.  Good luck!
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Carmen Sevilla \nhttp://www.andalucia.com/history/people/carmen.htm\nAngel Corella\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Corella\nJoaquín Cortés\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Cort%C3%A9s
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You should read and learn about the saints.  As you learn about them one will stand out among the rest.  My daughter looked up saints on the internet until she found one that really touched her.  She is taking her name...St. Gemma.  You don't have to base it on your interests.  Base it on the life of the saint...the things they did that touch you...that you can use as an example in your life.  Hope that helps.\n\nGod bless,\nStanbo
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She was the mother of Mary, which makes her Jesus' granny.  The Catholics made her a saint.
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Mother Teresa.  She was one hot mama
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chesnut