Originally published at The Catholic Thing
The body of St. Teresa has been exhumed for study, and scientists say the great Carmelite reformer, mystic, and Doctor of the Church must have suffered terribly from a severe curvature of her spine. Radiographer Fernando de Pablo Arranz says: “She had to walk with her head completely forward. Can you imagine the pain that this woman must have had? Truly, it’s amazing. In the work of diagnosing, I’ve seen a lot of scoliosis and other such things, but what I saw in her was something incredible.”
