For the third time since Saint Teresa of Avila's death in 1582, her coffin was opened in Alba de Tormes, near Salamanca, on August 28. This examination aims to better understand the diseases that ...

The body of St. Teresa of Jesus, or St. Teresa of Avila, has been put on display in Spain after she was found "miraculously incorrupt" last year. St. Teresa was a Discalced Carmelite nun.

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the face of Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the most influential figures of Spanish Catholicism to mark the 510th anniversary of her birth. This ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa", for example, depicts the saint's eyes rolling backwards and body convulsing as an angel prepares to penetrate her with a fire tipped arrow.

At the exhibit’s opening on Jan. 23, he told me two central touchstones led his curation: the visual spark of glowing enthrallment in Bernini’s sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, and the core ...

“Ecstasy” is a tricky word. It will suggest dramatic swooning raptures of the kind classically pictured in Critchley’s cover image of Bernini’s famous sculpture of St Teresa. But we are invited to ...

Five years after divorcing Lempicki in 1929, she married Baron Raoul Kuffner de Dioszegh. Moving to the United States in early 1939, Lempicka escaped the Nazi occupation of Poland and Paris.

I go to my bookshelves. I haven’t had a chance to organize them yet; there are general sections, but no order within them. After a while, I finally put my finger on the spine of the thin paperback I ...