A recurring image in this figure's work involves the comparison of life to a garden with prayer as the water that makes it grow.
A recurring image in this figure's work involves the comparison of life to a garden with prayer as the water that makes it grow. This figure's writings include the Meditations on the Canticle, as well as the didactic Way of Perfection, an instruction on how to pray effectively. This figure described the four stages of the soul's ascent in a spiritual autobiography. That work was followed by ruminations on the contemplative spiritual life published in the volume Interior Castle. Encouraged to found the first of many monasteries by a letter from Peter of Alcantara, in The Foundations, this friend and collaborator of St. John of the Cross, describes the launching of her order and her ecstatic conversion. For 10 points, identify this Christian mystic and saint, the founder of the Discalced or Barefoot Carmelites.
A recurring image in this figure's work involves the comparison of life to a garden with prayer as the water that makes it grow.
St. Teresa of Avila or of Jesus [or Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada]