Maria Petyt

Life

Maria Petyt, also spelled Petijt or Petiyt, in religion Marie of Saint Theresa or Marie de Sainte-Thérèse, was a Flemish Carmelite tertiary, mystic, beguine, and spiritual writer of the Spanish Netherlands. She lived in the tradition of the Ancient Observance Carmelites and was associated with the Touraine Reform, a reform movement within the unreformed Carmelite order that emphasized strict observance, solitude, interior prayer, and contemplation.

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