Indian Catholic nun Eliswa Vakayil, known as a champion of women's rights, has moved closer to sainthood after Pope Francis published a decree authorizing her and five others to be declared blessed.

According to Father Marco Chiesa, postulator general of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, who was present when the silver ...

St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila, was a Discalced Carmelite nun who died in 1582. In September, the Diocese of Avila announced that officials had opened her tomb in Alba de ...

Do you thirst for divine intimacy with God and apostolic ministry? As Discalced Carmelite Friars, we strive to live a zealous life of Allegiance to Jesus for the salvation of souls. We are called to ...

A scientific reconstruction of what would have been the face of St. Teresa of Avila at age 50 was presented in the town in ...

Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who designed La Sacrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona, is among a group of people who ...

Pope Francis has approved the promulgation of the decree on a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Kerala nun, ...

Founder (with St. Teresa) of the Discalced Carmelites, doctor of mystic theology, b. at Hontoveros, Old Castile, 24 June, 1542; d. at Ubeda, Andalusia, 14 Dec., 1591 ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski In Youngstown, Ohio, a large portrait of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun, hung in the bedroom of Joseph and Mary Tokasz Ferenchak.

Researchers are beginning to release details about a 16th-century Catholic saint whose body was found miraculously "incorrupt" last year. St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila ...

Mann explained in a statement released by the Iberian Province of the Discalced Carmelites that, in addition to scientific data, her work was based on other important sources such as “a portrait ...