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Description of  Celebrating Teresa of Avila: The Discalced Carmelites in Italy and Their Mission to Persia and the East Indies (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)

9004548904 pdf Splendid, multimedia celebrations for Teresa of Avila's beatification (1614) and canonization (1622) disseminated her cult to far-flung cities. Previously unknown festivities in Genoa, Rome, and Naples as well as those in Portuguese controlled Hormuz and Goa are vividly reconstructed and interpreted.