Balthazar Alvarez

In this excellent work he gathered and digested, in a clear and easy method, the most admirable maxims and lessons of the ancient monks, and having many years trained up, according to them, the novices of his order in Spain, died holily in the year 1616, the ninetieth of his age.

We have other eminent instances of this Holy Spirit and science among the primitive disciples of Saint Ignatius, in the works of Father Luis de Ponte, or Puente, who died in 1624, and whose canonization has been often desired by the kings of Spain, in those of Father Álvarez de Paz, who died in Peru, in 1620, and in the writings and life of Father Baltasar Álvarez, who died in Spain, in 1580, in the odor of sanctity.

St. Francis Borgia, in 1551, gave a considerable sum towards building the Roman college for the Jesuits.

Pope Julius III.

But the holy old man was not satisfied with this.

Rumors of the gossip in the town had reached his ears, and he went straight to Father Balthasar Alvarez, with whom he had a long interview, and from whom he heard much of Teresa's obedience and humility.

his next visit was to don francisco de salcedo whom he succeeded in convincing of the truth and even managed to persuade dr daza that he had been mistaken before leaving avila he bade teresa write to him whenever she wanted counsel and advice and promised to do all that he could to help her Consoled and strengthened, Teresa was ready now to bear the worst.

The verdict of St. Peter of Alcantara was not without its effects in Avila.

Six months had passed when Father Ibanez suddenly resolved to leave Avila to devote himself in silence and solitude to a life of prayer.

His departure seemed a serious loss to the little group of workers, but God was to provide for Teresa another friend who was destined to take his place.

the rector of the college of st giles was shortly afterwards withdrawn and father gaspar de salazar a strong wise and holy man was put in his place father balthasar alvarez hastened to seek his advice with regard to st teresa who was presently ordered to give the rector an account of her soul and of the supernatural manifestations that she had received this was a thing which the saint disliked extremely but no sooner had she entered the confessional than she was at peace a secret intuition that father caspar would understand and help her made everything easy teresa was not mistaken god had given father caspar a special grace for the reading of souls he bade the saints confess her give her more liberty and fear nothing the spirit of god was there a little later the saint received an order from our lord to speak to father caspar on the subject of the new foundation bid him meditate said her divine master on the words o lord how great are thy works thy thoughts are exceeding deep father de salazar did so and during his prayer saw the whole enterprise in the light of god that very day he told teresa that the divine will had been made known to him she must go on with the undertaking it was agreed that they should work in secret for the nuns of the incarnation had prejudiced the provincial so strongly against the project that it would have been worse than useless to appeal to him again The state of affairs seemed anything but promising.

Teresa was watched and distrusted by her sisters in religion.