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500th Anniversary of the Births of Saint Phillip Neri and Saint Teresa of Jesus Scott 1605 (2015) October 15 marks the Feast of Saint Teresa of Ávila, also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus. She was born on March 28, 1515, in the Spanish town of Avila. Her date of death is given as either October 4 or October 15, 1582. In an interesting historical note, this was the exact point when Catholic Europe made the switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, which required the excision of the dates of October 5 to 14 from the calendar. She died either just prior to midnight on October 4, or in the early morning hours of the new October 15. In addition to the stamp above, issued to commemorate her birth, Vatican City issued a three-stamp set in 1982 to remember the 400th anniversary of her death: 
 400th Anniversary of the Death of Saint Teresa of Avila Scott 710-710 (1982) One of the three stamps is a drawing based on the stunning sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Saint Teresa in Ecstasy, located in the Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome:  Saint Teresa in Ecstasy, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Photo by Livioandronico2013 From Wikimedia Commons Use by permission under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Please click on the Page 2 button below for a detailed article on this famous Doctor of the Church, written by James Hamilton. And watch for tomorrow's Daily Email, which will feature Gian Lorenzo Bernini. REFERENCES: |
