Letter (number unidentified). To Canon Jeronimo Reynoso, Burgos, May 20, 1582

Difficulties with some religious. JESUS! May the grace of the Holy Spirit be with your Reverence. AM always glad when I receive a letter from you and sorry that sometimes I cannot have the pleasure of answering it. I know that you understand the reason, yet I am grieved at not being able to do more.

The enclosed letter (which I wish the Mother Prioress to see) is addressed to the Father Reéor, Juan de Aguilar; it will give you some idea of what is happening as regards the Society of Jesus (Compafiia). They are really beginning to show us open enmity (to which the devil has urged them) by blaming me for that for which they ought to thank me and using it to bring grave charges against me. It seems that some of the fathers could bear witness to certain things that I have said, that I have wanted, and that I have tried to obtain—it is much that they do not say that I have shought. It is all on account of this miserable self-interest. As I believe that they will tell falsehoods, I see clearly that it is a plot of the devil’s.

They have told Catalina de Tolosa that they do not wish to have anything to do with the Discalced, as they do not like our way of prayer. The devil must have a strong motive for setting us at variance since he takes so much pains about it. They also said that their General was coming to Spain; in fact, had already disembarked. I remember that he is a friend of Don Francisco; if, by his means, the plot could be unravelled and silence enjoined by the truth being made known, it would be rendering God great service, for it is deplorable to see persons of so grave a character occupied with such childish trifles. Will your Reverence consider the matter and aé as you think best.

suitable, besides which they had no space for more. The most distinguished priests and preachers of Granada used to come unasked to preach and say Mass for the Carmelites and liked to hear their uae St. John of the Cross declared that the Ven. Anne of Jesus had made the foundation well, but probably owing to the difficulty of transmitting letters and to St.Teresa’s travels, no explanation reached her from Granada before she died. Directly after her death she appeared to the saintly prioress, curing the Venerable Anne of a dangerous illness. (See Found. of Granada in the Foundations and the Minor Works of St. Teresa, p. 225).