Letter (number unidentified). To A Confessor of the Nuns, Medina del Campo, August, 1580

His penitents. Silence at the turn.

JESUS! May the grace of the Holy Spirit be with your Honour. ILL you be kind enough to visit the newly NWA ae sister some day and have a long talk with her. Ask her to pray for me and for the affairs of the Order. May our Lord make both her and Dofia Catalina very holy. Remember me most kindly to the latter.

It is extremely mortifying for me to witness the form our poverty takes here, and to be so well treated. The friars can tell you that our food is very choice and the house is charming and most comfortable. A few minor things are wanting but there is no fear that they will not be supplied, for people give us many presents and we send the surplus to our brethren.

TO DONA JUANA DE AHUMADA 63

God give your Honour all I wish for you. Amen. Your unworthy daughter, Teresa de Jesus, Carmelite.

CCCXXXVIII