St. Teresa de Jesus de Los Andres (1900-1920)
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(Vatican) Born in Chile Santiago in 1900 Teresa de Jesus of Los Andes is irrefutable proof that Jesus Christ’s call to be Saints is indeed real, it happens in our time and can be answered.
Teresa de Jesus of Los Andes, is presented to us to demonstrate that the total dedication of following Christ is the one and only thing that is worth this effort and that gives us true happiness.
As a young girl growing up in Santiago, Teresa read an autobiography of French born Saint Theresa popular known as ‘The Little Flower’ –This experience according to Franciscan Media deepened her desire to serve God and clarified the path she would follow. At the age of 19 Teresa became a Carmelite Nun.
The Convent offered the simple lifestyle that Sister Teresa desired the joy of living in a community of Women completely devoted to God.
Sister Teresa de Jesus, focused her days on prayer and sacrifice. “I am God’s,” she wrote in her diary. “He created me and is my beginning and my end.” Knowing for a long time that she would die young, moreover the Lord revealed this to her. A month that she departed this life, Sister de Jesus related this to her Confessor and accepted all this with much happiness, serenity and confidence for she was confident that her mission to make God known and loved, would continue in eternity.
Subsequent to many trials and indescribable physical suffering caused by violent attacks of Typhus which cut Sister Teresa de Jesus life short, she passed from this world to her Heavenly Father at the age of 20 on this date in 1920
Saint Teresa de Jesus of Los Andes was Beatified in 1987 and Canonized in 1993 by Pope Saint John Paul II and was the first Saint of Chile.
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