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April 12
St. Teresa
of Los Andes
(1900-1920)
One needn’t live a long life to leave a deep imprint. Teresa of
Los Andes is proof of that.
As a young girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, in the early 1900s, she read an autobiography of a French-born
saint—Therese, popularly known as the Little Flower. The experience
deepened her desire to serve God and clarified the path she would follow. At
age 19 she became a Carmelite nun, taking the name of Teresa.
The convent offered the simple lifestyle Teresa desired and the
joy of living in a community of women completely devoted to God. She focused
her days on prayer and sacrifice. “I am
God’s, ” she wrote in her diary. “He created me and is my beginning and my
end. ”
Toward the end of her short life, Teresa began an apostolate of
letter-writing, sharing her thoughts on the spiritual life with many people. At
age 20 she contracted typhus and quickly took her final vows. She died a short
time later, during Holy Week.
Teresa remains popular with the estimated 100,000 pilgrims who
visit her shrine in Los Andes each year. She is Chile’s first saint.
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