She would have laughed if she had been told that she would someday be named a Doctor of the Church. Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda (1515-1582), better known as Saint Teresa of Ávila, received the sort of education given to a sixteenth-century housewife. Nevertheless, a famous contemporary theologian and preacher declared that “he would rather argue with all the theologians in Spain than with this nun who knew no Latin."
Most Catholics know that Saint Teresa was born in Spain, decided to become a Carmelite nun, and lived a faithful but mediocre life for almost two decades. After experiencing a deep conversion, she spent the rest of her life establishing a reformed order, now known as the Order of Discalced Carmelites.
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