Saint Teresa Of Jesus is the fountain of inspiration and orientation and the Mother Foundress of the Teresian Carmel. She was born in Avila to the family of Cepeda y Ahumada, on March 28, 1515. She became a Carmelite nun at the age of 20 in the Monastery of the Incarnation in the city where she was born. She remained there 27 years until August 24, 1562 when she inaugu- rated her own new Carmel. Through new and strong ecclesial expe- riences, she continued by order of the Superior General, Juan Bautista Rubeo, to found 17 foundations in Spain beginning in 1567. One year later, November 28, 1568, she organized with St. John of the Cross the beginning of the new life of the Discalced Carmelites in Duruelo, in the Province of Avila. At the age of 67 she died “a daughter of the Church” in the monastery of Alba de Tormes in the afternoon of October 4, 1582.