She never asked for permission to write anything, but waited until she received a command from her superiors, which, in this case, came from 10 Father Jerome Gracian, superior of the Discalced J. With these one may even compose a new work of considerable size, provided God grants me the grace of explaining myself otherwise the loss will be of small account.’ 2 2Letters of St. On January 17, 1577, she had written to her brother, Don Lorenzo de Cepeda, at Avila: ‘I have asked the bishop-Don Alvaro Mendoza-for my book (the Life) because I shall perhaps complete it by adding those new favours our Lord has lately granted me. The rapidity with which it was written is easily explained by the fact that the Saint had conceived its plan some time previously. so that the actual time spent in the composition of this work was reduced to about four weeks-a fortnight for the first, and another fortnight for the second half of the book. But there was a long interruption of five months, 1 1Castle, Mansions v. SAINT TERESA began to write the Interior Castle on June 2, 1577, Trinity Sunday, and completed it on the eve of St. Benedict Zimmerman for having kindly revised the translation of the ‘Interior Castle’ and also for the Introduction, Notes, and Index which he has added to the book. The Benedictines of Stanbrook desire to express their gratitude to the very Rev.
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