Teresa of Ávila

Castle in the dry plain

Eighteen episodes on a Castilian Carmelite who at thirty-nine saw a statue of the wounded Christ, founded seventeen reformed convents across sixteenth-century Spain, wrote the first interior castle of Spanish letters, was denounced to the Inquisition, partnered with John of the Cross, and died at sixty-seven the same night the Gregorian calendar took effect.

18 episodes · Narrated in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German