During the next fourteen days, the pilgrims They can venerate the Holy Reformer in the Basilica of the Annunciationwhere their remains rest in the convent church.
The remains, protected in its sepulcher with a transparent glass lama, They maintain the same aspect as in that opening of 1914although At that time it was only for a few hourson the eve of the fourth centenary of his birth.
Then he was uncovered With the authorization of Pope Pius Xbut it was privately, after the request of Father Clemente de los Santos, General of the Carmelite Order.
In 1760 It was also open to realize its remains in a funeral urn that the kings of Spain gave, so the last public veneration occurred in 1582 on the occasion of their death.
The prior of the barefoot Carmelites of Salamanca and Alba de Tormes, Miguel Ángel González, explained that the visual image must be transcended from a contemplative perspective, such as the one that the Holy one had, to receive the “spiritual gift” he offers “With the testimony of his life, the wealth of his writings, the greatness of his traces, as a woman, as a holy and as a doctor“
Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda was born in 1515 and died in Alba de Tormes in 1582he founded the Order of the Barefoot Carmelites, was canonized in 1622 and is considered one of the Spanish exponents of mystical literature, with works such as “The Interior Castle” (Las Moradas).
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