Avila - Teresa's Town

Here are the walls surrounding Avila, the home of St. Teresa (died in the mid-1500's), see www.karmel.at/eng/teresa. St. Theresa is a favorite for those of us who like Bernini's 1652 sculpture of her swooning, with her shoe dangling off her bare foot. See www.stmarys-ca.edu/magazine/v26/4/teresa.

The town of Avila, www.cyberspain.com/ciudades-patrimonio/iavila, where she was from, has standing medieval walls, there were some 90 towers, and the museum is a fine display of her work.
She is especially dear because she had relationships, attractions, waffled in her faith, like Mother Teresa. See ://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/avila.html. Nothing is certain, no matter how much we may want it to be. Is that right? Cheer on the searchers, and keep your own dishes washed. And, was she part Jewish? See ://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Teresa.html. Pursue that if it is of interest to you. The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492.