Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada

Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, also known as Teresa of Ávila and (Saint) Teresa of Jesus, was born on March 28, 1515. She was a Spanish Carmelite nun, writer, and central figure of Christian mysticism and monastic renewal during the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Along with writing prayers, poems, and works on mysticism, she wrote her autobiography The Life of Teresa of Jesus in 1565. Teresa of Ávila died in October of 1582.