A Wikipedia article on Teresa of Avila, the Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystic canonized in 1622 and later named a Doctor of the Church for her writings on prayer and visionary experience, including The Interior Castle. The article documents her reputation for interceding on behalf of others in her visions, the same intercessory register a museum-held Rubens workshop panel of her, interceding for souls in purgatory, belongs to.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm Teresa's canonization and her intercessory devotional register, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue title and Wikidata link for this exact panel. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Teresa of Avila directly: "A Wikipedia article on Teresa of Avila, the Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystic canonized in 1622 and later named a Doctor of the Church for her writings on prayer and visionary experience..."
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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