Author Description

"María of Saint Joseph chosen by Teresa of Jesus as her successor in the Reform of Carmel, a woman who has been greatly calumniated in life and silenced after her death.Elegant, a writer, poet and mystic, defender of the feminine state, fighter in defence of the truth, a woman of prayer and purity. She re-emerged after centuries of ostracism in which she had been hidden by misogynist friars who could not tolerate that they too, the men's branch of the Discalced, had been founded by a woman. As Teresa of Jesus was not there they baited the heirs of her Reform.Mary of Saint Joseph, prioress of the Carmels of Seville and Lisbon, suffered bodily in the prison cell of the monastery amid abhorrent calumnies, and died, after an iniquitous exile, in the hidden monastery of Mancha"