Teresa de Ávila, woman and doctor

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/ihemc.0.2021.5-34

Keywords:

Saint Teresa, Difficulties of the Doctorate, Saint Paul and women, Iconography, Doctor by Salamanca, Doctor of the Church

Abstract

Historical memory of the path traveled so that Saint Teresa of Jesus was proclaimed a Doctor of the Catholic Church. There were many requests to Rome, but none were answered, because, although she had merits, she was a woman, and Saint Paul had sent: “mulieres in ecclesia taceant”. However, the cloister of the University of Salamanca, in 1922, and unanimously, granted Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada the title of Doctor “honoris causa”. The most solemn festivities of the collation of the doctorate in Salamanca and Alba de Tormes are described. It took almost half a century for Rome (after Vatican II) to declare Saint Teresa Doctor of the Church (1970).

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Published

2021-07-20