Vuestra soy, para Vos nací. …

Take, O Lord, my loving heart:
See, I yield it to Thee whole,
With my body, life, and soul
And my nature’s every part.
Sweetest Spouse, my Life Thou art;
I have given myself to Thee:
What wilt Thou have done with me?

I am Thine, and born for Thee:
What wilt Thou have done with me?

Saint Teresa of Avila
Born 28 March 1515

Vuestra soy, para Vos nací (excerpt)
Translated by E. Alison Peers

Thanks to biographer William Thomas Walsh we have this note from Saint Teresa’s father Don Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda: “on Wednesday, on the twenty-eighth day of March, of the year 1515, was born my daughter Teresa, at five o’clock in the morning, half an hour before or after (it was just about to dawn on that said Wednesday).”