Religious Pewter Pendant Necklace - St Theresa of Avila - PST-112

When she was 43 years old, St. Therese of Avila decided to create a new order of nuns dedicated to a life of poverty and prayer. For St. Therese, the contemplative life was a loving, even fun vocation. Therese said "May God protect me from gloomy saints." On day, when one of the Sisters found her about to eat an especially sumptuous meal and scolded her for the lack of poverty is showed , she answered "There's a time for partridge and a time for penance." She was ordered to write her life story by the church. She described her divine visions, and the church decided that they were real experiences, granted her by God. In spite of this approval, she was a very controversial figure. The Pope called her "a restless disobedient gadabout. " When a convent elected her as the prioress, the head of the Carmelites excommunicated every nun who lived there. In 1970 she was declared a Doctor of the Church for her writing. Pendants come on legend cards with a 33-inch-long cord.