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Caravaca Cross Santa Teresa behaved during part of his life and was found in his deathbed remains exposed today in the Royal Basilica of the Blessed and Vera Cruz.
Coupled to said Teresa relic, and the handwritten manuscript of the first doctor of the Church, dated 1575 document, which is owned by the Municipal Archives of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz letter also exposed.
The Mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, José Moreno;
the older sister of the Brotherhood of Vera Cruz, Elisa Giménez-Giron;
and the prior of the Discalced Carmelite community of Caravaca, Father Father Pascual Gil, signed transfer documents in the custody and safekeeping commitments establishing these valuable pieces.
The wooden replica of the Cross of Caravaca de Santa Teresa has been kept in the convent of the Discalced Carmelite Mothers Brussels.
At the request of the Royal and Illustrious Brotherhood of the Holy Cross, Father Pascual Gil, Teresa requested that the relic temporarily return to the city where he went nearly five centuries ago.
After arriving in Caravaca de la Cruz, for two weeks has been venerated in the convent of the Carmelite Fathers and now will remain on display in the Royal Basilica of the Holy Cross until next October.
This initiative is part of the commemoration of the V Centenary of the Birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus and the implementation of the tourist and cultural route "Traces of Teresa", which is part Caravaca de la Cruz, along with sixteen other Spanish cities .
History of Caravaca de la Cruz and Santa Teresa letter
In 1576 a group of pious, after hearing the homily of a Jesuit, decide to withdraw into a house in the municipality and request Teresa founding a convent.
At that time the Holy Avila was in Beas del Segura, but the difficult terrain and the problems with the foundation in Seville make it unable to be present in Caravaca and send one of his most faithful sisters, Ana de San Alberto, Caravaca reaching carrying the letter with the orders of the Holy to create the XII Foundation seventeen create in life.
As a thank you, Anne of St. Augustine sent a Caravaca Cross Santa Teresa take until the end of his days.
It was his nurse, Anne Bartholomew, who collected the relic after the Holy deceased.
The nun was moved to Paris, carrying the Cross of Caravaca and later was responsible for founding convent in Brussels, from that moment the relic has remained within the cloistered convent in Belgium.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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