🔥 Fine Antique 19th c. Old Master Carmelite Catholic Saint Oil Painting, HUGE for Sale

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🔥 Fine Antique 19th c. Old Master Carmelite Catholic Saint Oil Painting, HUGE For Sale

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🔥 Fine Antique 19th c. Old Master Carmelite Catholic Saint Oil Painting, HUGE:
$3500.00

This is a magnificent andFine Antique 19th c. Old Master Carmelite Catholic Saint Oil Painting on canvas, at a grand size of approximately 36 x 48 inches. This work depicts Saint Teresa of Avila and the child Jesus, on the palatial grounds of an old Carmelite monastery. The facial expression of Saint Teresa is serene and contemplative, while Jesus\' facial expression is filled with joy and benevolence. The details in this work are simply amazing and meticulous, including the scenery of the monastery grounds. Ripe bushels of grapes on the vine, numerous pink roses, and a delicately rendered cloudy sky above represent the master of the painter. Unfortunately, this piece does not appear to be signed, but perhaps you recognize the artist or their work? This painting is purported to have come from an old Carmelite monastery somewhere in the state of Texas, but this work may have originally comefrom Europe. Some writing on a bell tower in the painting reads: \"ORDO...CALZATI.\" This is a reference to the Carmelite, Ordo Fratrum Beatae. Good condition for over a century of age, with a few light scuffs to the canvas, edge wear, and evidence of an old tear which received a restoration sometime in the past (please see photos.) Acquired in Southern Texas, United States. Priced to sell. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!
About the Carmelites:

The Carmelites are a religious Order of Roman Catholic Priests and Brothers, who follow an 800 year-old tradition of spirituality. Their official title is, “The Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.”

Following the Old Testament prophet Elijah, they seek to live in God’s presence and call people to a deeper faith in God’s faithful presence and the establishment of the justice of God’s reign.

Following Mary, the Mother of God, they seek to be open and open others to God’s saving and freeing presence in all the people and experiences of their lives, and echo her “yes” to the movement of God’s Spirit.

Carmelites follow Jesus Christ by living the evangelical vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. They work in 26 nations and are especially expanding in third world countries among the poor and underdeveloped. From college campuses to military chapels, and from high school teaching to psychotherapy, Carmelite friars live out our commitment in a wide variety of services. They are AIDS ministers, college teachers, communications professionals, counselors, foreign missionaries, hospital chaplains, peace and justice coordinators, police and firefighter chaplains, prison ministers, retreat directors and spiritual directors. They minister with those who have much and those who have almost nothing. Like Elijah, they continue to ask others to make a choice — for God, life, growth, and wholeness — until the reign of God is established.

All Carmelites in ministry seek to announce God’s presence within the human experience and denounce whatever injustice limits God’s presence among His children.

About St. Teresa of Avila:

Birth: March 28, 1515
Death: October 4, 1582
Beatified: April 24th 1614, Rome by Pope Paul V
Canonized: March 12th 1622, Rome by Pope Gregory XV

Saint Teresa of Avila’s Story

Teresa lived in an age of exploration as well as political, social, and religious upheaval. It was the 16th century, a time of turmoil and reform. She was born before the Protestant Reformation and died almost 20 years after the closing of the Council of Trent.

The gift of God to Teresa in and through which she became holy and left her mark on the Church and the world is threefold: She was a woman; she was a contemplative; she was an active reformer.

As a woman, Teresa stood on her own two feet, even in the man’s world of her time. She was “her own woman,” entering the Carmelites despite strong opposition from her father. She is a person wrapped not so much in silence as in mystery. Beautiful, talented, outgoing, adaptable, affectionate, courageous, enthusiastic, she was totally human. Like Jesus, she was a mystery of paradoxes: wise, yet practical; intelligent, yet much in tune with her experience; a mystic, yet an energetic reformer; a holy woman, a womanly woman.

Teresa was a woman “for God,” a woman of prayer, discipline, and compassion. Her heart belonged to God. Her ongoing conversion was an arduous lifelong struggle, involving ongoing purification and suffering. She was misunderstood, misjudged, and opposed in her efforts at reform. Yet she struggled on, courageous and faithful; she struggled with her own mediocrity, her illness, her opposition. And in the midst of all this she clung to God in life and in prayer. Her writings on prayer and contemplation are drawn from her experience: powerful, practical, and graceful. She was a woman of prayer; a woman for God.

Teresa was a woman “for others.” Though a contemplative, she spent much of her time and energy seeking to reform herself and the Carmelites, to lead them back to the full observance of the primitive Rule. She founded over a half-dozen new monasteries. She traveled, wrote, fought—always to renew, to reform. In her self, in her prayer, in her life, in her efforts to reform, in all the people she touched, she was a woman for others, a woman who inspired and gave life.

Her writings, especially theWay of PerfectionandThe Interior Castle, have helped generations of believers.

In 1970, the Church gave her the title she had long held in the popular mind: Doctor of the Church. She and St. Catherine of Siena were the first women so honored.

The Life of St. Teresa of JesusMystic | Teacher of Prayer | Doctor of the Church

St. Teresa of Jesus was born on March 28, 1515, in Avila, Spain. Her mother died when she was 14, and she entered the Carmelite Monastery in Avila in 1535. Her life as a Carmelite, though far removed from the mainstream of modern culture, still speaks powerfully to us today.

Teresa longed for a deeper relationship with God, but due to the laxity of convent life in those days, she struggled to reconcile her desire to live for God with other relationships that kept her from devoting herself completely to Him.

Repeatedly, Teresa asked God to help her, seemingly to no avail. It was not until 1554 that she experienced the conversion that would mark the rest of her life. Coming upon a statue of the wounded Christ, Teresa was suddenly and intensely moved by what Christ had suffered for her and was overwhelmed by her own lack of gratitude for His sufferings. In tears, she begged the Lord to strengthen her desire to belong to Him, and resolved not to move from there until her prayer was granted. At that moment, Teresa felt a growing strength within her.

Teresa’s conversion, which actually occurred over a period of four years, set her on a new pathway that led her to an intimate experience of God, a God she came to perceive as a beloved Friend. In prayer, God poured out His love on His daughter, who had become a willing and open vessel as she surrendered totally to her Lord and King.

Teresa’s indomitable love for God made her determined to give her all, willing to overcome any obstacle to do what God asked of her. Convinced that God wanted it, she set about reforming the Carmelite order, establishing convents throughout Spain where religious would live according to the original spirit of Carmel.

The special gifts she received from God in prayer were often misunderstood by others—her writings even came under the scrutiny of the Inquisition—and Teresa suffered much. At times she would try to suppress the ecstasies that accompanied God’s intimate presence, even questioning herself if they had come from God. Yet God continued to lead her into the innermost dwellings of her heart, where she beheld the awesome beauty of her King.

Fortunately for us, Teresa’s superiors ordered her to document the remarkable events of her life and her original works still exist today. The Book of Her Life, The Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle, and The Foundations are her main works, detailing her remarkable pathway to God. It is through these profoundly human yet mystical writings that we experience Teresa’s spirit that inspires us to enter into an ever deeper relationship with God.

Teresa died in 1582 at the age of 67. In 1622 she was canonized, and in 1970 Pope Paul VI declared her a Doctor of the Church, the first woman ever to be so recognized.

Prayer of St. Teresa

Let nothing disturb you;
Let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Nothing is wanting to him
Who possesses God.
God alone suffices.