Excerpt from The Letters of Saint Teresa, Vol. 3: A Complete Edition Translated From the Spanish and Annotated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook With an Introduction by Cardinal Gasquet Doubtless your Majesty is aware that the nuns of the Incarnation wished me to come to them, thinking that I might be able to deliver them from the Calced friars, who certainly offer a serious obstacle to the recollection and observance the community desire - the lack of which was entirely owing to the Mitigated fathers. The sisters are mistaken in thinking that I could help them, for while the Calced hear their confessions and make their visitations, my presence there could do no permanent good, as I always say to the Dominican Visitor, who knows it is true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.