U źródeł terezjańskiego dziedzictwa. Rola Any de Jesús w kształtowaniu pamięci o działalności Teresy z Ávila
At the Source of the Theresian Legacy. The Role of Ana de Jesús in Shaping the Memory of the Work of Teresa of Ávila

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the dispute that took place within the Spanish Carmelites after the death of Saint Teresa of Ávila. By analyzing the source texts and the relevant literature, the author reconstruct the main reasons for the conflict and present two opposing positions regarding Teresa’s legacy that emerged among Carmelites after her death. The first of them, represented by Ana de Jesús, a student of Teresa of Ávila, was intended to continue Teresian humanism and to preserve the famous Alcalá constitutions, granting the nuns the right to the so-called Holy Freedom. The most important opponent to Teresa’s constitutions and monastic freedom was Nicolas Doria, provincial of the Carmelites, who, after her death, stopped reforms and restored the old monastic order, based on the rule of Saint Albert. The second part of the paper focuses on the figure of Ana de Jesús, who also fought for Teresa’s cause by inscribing her achievements in a spiritual worldview that went far beyond the monastic rule. Thus, the text aims to show that the considered conflict was based on the two opposite ways of thinking about the world.

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