Doña Teresa Sanchez D’Avila Cepeda y Ahumada

. . . .a.k.a. Madre Teresa de Jesus or St. Teresa of Avila is celebrated today in most if not all calendars of the western Church. An excellent essay on her life (in English) done by the Austrian Discalced Carmelites can be found here. Today is a memorial in the standard reformed Roman calendar, a feast for the Ancient Observance Carmelites, and a Solemnity for the Discalced Carmelite Order. In the traditional Roman Rite it is a feast of the third class.

Hæc est dies, qua candidæ
Instar columbæ, cælitum
Ad sacra temple spiritus
Se transtulit Teresiæ

Sponsique voces audiit:
Veni, soror, de vertice
Carmeli ad Agni nuptias:
Veni ad corona gloriæ.

Te, sponse Jesu virginum,
Beati adorent ordines,
Et nuptiali cantico
Laudent per omne sæculum. Amen.

-Proper Hymn for Lauds on the feast of St. Teresa.