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Luther was born in 1483, and he nailed his ninety-five theses to the door
of the University Church of Wittenberg on the 31st October 1517. Loyola
was born in 1491, and Xavier in 1506, and the Society of Jesus was
established in 1534. Isabella the Catholic was born in 1451, and our own
Protestant Elizabeth in 1533. The Spanish Inquisition began to sit in
1483, the Breviary was finally settled in 1568, and the Armada was
destroyed in 1588. Columbus was born in 1446, and he set out on his
great enterprise in 1492. Cervantes was born in 1547, and the First Part
of his immortal work was published in 1605. And it is to be read in
Santa Teresa's Breviary to this day that Teresa the Sinner was born on
the 29th day of March 1515, at five o'clock in the morning. She died in
1582, and in 1622 she was publicly canonised at Rome along with Loyola
and Xavier and two other Spanish saints.
Teresa was greatly blessed in both her parents. 'It helped me much that
I never saw my father or my mother respect anything in any one but
goodness.
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