More or less from the time I was seven years old there took root in my soul the greatest devotion to my Mother, the Most Holy Virgin. I confided to Mary everything that was happening to me, and she spoke to me.
I heard her voice within me, quite clearly and distinctly. She advised me and told me all that I had to do to please Our Lord.
I thought that it was a perfectly normal thing, and it never occurred to me to relate to others what the Most Holy Virgin was telling me…
I thought that it was a perfectly normal thing, and it never occurred to me to relate to others what the Most Holy Virgin was telling me…
-- Diary, St. Teresa of the Andes
