Letter (number unidentified). To Canon Montoya, Rome, Burgos, May, 1582

Congratulations and sympathy.

JESUS! May the grace of the Holy Spirit be with your

Reverence.

i bik labours and ill-health I have gone through since you left Spain will be my excuse for not having written to you before. Yet I have shared your pleasure in the good brother-in-law our Lord has given you. Dofia Maria wrote, telling me about him andasking me to pray for some of your personal ' Translated by kind permission of P. Grégoire from the Spanish first published by him. Letter 434, 2nd. ed. The autograph is at the Discalced Carmelite Convent, Florence.

TO DON RUIZ DE LA PENA 32 affairs as it seems that you have not been without trials of your own. May God be praised for all things. I and the nuns here pray for you constantly and I should like to know whether the storm has blown over. Wicked as I am, I never miss, nor will I ever miss, praying for you as I am bound to do. I do not think it is harmful that God should send crosses amidst our prosperity, for He has led all His chosen ones in this way. We seem at peace here for the present, as Father Nicolas de Jesus Maria will tell you when he delivers this letter. As he will give you all my news, I will say no more. May our Lord proteét your illustrious person and advance you in His service! Your unworthy servant, Teresa de Jesus. I have heard nothing of the good Bishop of the Canaries since just before he embarked; he was well at the time.

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