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L'Estasi
di Santa Teresa by Gian
Lorenzo Bernini, 1647 - 1652
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I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the
point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at
times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he
seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of
God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the
sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it […]
The
Life of Teresa of Jesus
(1515–1582)
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