Doctor of the Church · Feast October 15
Saint Teresa of Avila
Doctor of the Church, patron of Spain · Feast October 15
Biography
Saint Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582), Discalced Carmelite reformer, mystic, and author of The Interior Castle and the Autobiography. With St. John of the Cross she renewed the Carmelite Order. Declared the first woman Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
Feast day
October 15
Patronage
- Spain
- headache sufferers
- writers
Canonization status
Canonized
Feast month
10
Feast day of month
15