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CHAIN IS NOT INCLUDED PicturesOnGold.com Saint Teresa Los Andes Religious Necklace Pendants Unisex Adult - 2/3 x 3/4 Inch Sterling Silver Available in Solid 14K Yellow or White Gold, or Sterling Silver Size Reference: 17mm is the size of a US dime 19mm is the size of a US nickel 25mm is the size of a US quarter Teresa was born Juana Enriqueta Josefina de los Sagrados Corazones Fernndez y Solar in Santiago, Chile into an upper class family. Early in her life she read the autobiography of the French Carmelite nun Thrse of Lisieux, who was later to be canonized herself. The experience had a profound effect on Juanitas already pious character, coming to the realization she wanted to live for God alone. She had to work to overcome a very self-centered personality toward being one which cared for others above all. Her further inspiration for this self-transformation was her upcoming First Communion, which led her to this commitment in an effort to be worthy of what she was to receive. In 1919, at the age of 19, Juana entered the novitiate of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in the township of Los Andes, at which time she was given the name Teresa of Jesus. Toward the end of her short life, the new Sister Teresa began an apostolate of letter-writing, sharing her thoughts on the spiritual life with many people. Within a few months of her admission to the Order, however, she contracted typhus, which was diagnosed as fatal. She was still three months short of her twentieth birthday, and had yet six months to complete her canonical novitiate, so as to be normally able to make her religious vows; nevertheless she was allowed to profess vows in mortis (danger of death). She thereby died as a professed nun of the Order on April 12, 1920, which fell during Holy Week that year. Teresa remains popular with the estimated 100,000 pilgrims who visit each year the shrine where her remains are venerated in the Shrine of Saint Teresa of Los Andes in the township of Los Andes, 60 miles (