Letter (number unidentified). To the Very Reverend Fray Antonio de Segura, Toledo, Lent, 1570

The Saint reproaches him for not having called on her. She recommends her nephew yuan de yesus, to his care.

JESUS! May the Holy Spirit be with you, my Father !

IDG not know how to express the insignificance of everything in this world, yet I never can realise it. I say this because I could not have believed that your Reverence would have so neglected Teresa de Jesus, and as you were near her your memory cannot have been at fault. Indeed, it seems very unlikely; yet though you have been at Toledo you never visited us and gave your blessing to this house of yours. Now I hear from Father lose his soul and his life. He had scarcely obeyed when the Indians entered the city and massacred the new Governor and all the Spaniards in the place. Augustin returned to Spain, but went back to Lima where he died in 1591. He made a good end, being comforted by an apparition of his sister St. Teresa who had died nine years before. {(Euz'res, ii, 407.)

Julian de Avila' that you have been appointed Guardian of Cadahalso. Had you cared at all about it, you could have had news of me sometimes. God grant you do not forget me so completely in your prayers! On that condition I will overlook the rest — wretch as I am I always remember you in mine.

Father Julian also told me that my nephew ' will call on you when he is passing. Should the latter have already left, will you kindly tell him to send me full particulars of both his exterior and spiritual life, for considering how many journeys he makes under obedience, he must either be very advanced or very unrecolleóled. God give him the grace he needs, for he is not receiving the treatment I expelled would have been shown to so near a relative ot mine. Let me know, please, whether it is necessary to obtain his superior's goodwill in the matter, as Señora Doña Maria de Mendoza and other influential persons would support our petition. It could easily be arranged, and his superiors would grant him a short rest. If your Reverence should come to Toledo, remember not to omit visiting this convent of yours. May the Master bring us all to heaven ! My health is good and we are getting on well, glory be to God!

I do not write to Fray Juan de Jesus because I do not know whether he is with you. God give him the strength of soul of which he is in real need, and may the Lord be with you! Our Father, Fray Bartolomé de Santa Ana, is spending Lent with Doña Luisa de la Cerda at Paracuellos. Your Reverence's unworthy servant and daughter, Teresa de Jesus, Carmelite.