Quote of the day, 4 December: St. Teresa of Avila

I would consider the confessors better off if they were held by the Moors, who perhaps would show more compassion. And this one friar who is so great a servant of God is so weak from all that he has suffered that I fear for his life.

Saint Teresa of Avila
Letter 218 to the King of Spain, Philip II
4 December 1577
Begging for his help to obtain the release of St. John of the Cross

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.