Paperback: María of Saint Joseph chosen by Teresa of Jesus as her successor in the Reform of Carmel, a woman who has been greatly calumniated in life and silenced after her death.
María of Saint Joseph is an elegant writer, a fine poet, mystic, defender of the feminine state, fighter in defence of the truth, a woman of prayer and purity.
She re-emerged after centuries of ostracism in which she had been hidden by misogynist friars who could not tolerate that they too, the men’s branch of the Discalced, had been founded by a woman.
As Teresa of Jesus was not there they baited the heirs of her Reform.
María of Saint Joseph, prioress of the Carmels of Seville and Lisbon, suffered bodily in the prison cell of the monastery amid abhorrent calumnies, and died, after an iniquitous exile, in the hidden monastery of Mancha.
The Favourite Daughter of Teresa of Jesus was first published in Spanish as La hija predilecta de Teresa de Jesús: María de San José in 2008. It was translated and completed by Fr John McGowan OCD on the Feast of Saints Joachim and Ann (26 July) and first published in English in 2018.
About the author: Carlos Ros (b 1941) lives in Seville, Spain, a great friend of the Carmelite nuns in that city. He has written over thirty books about famous historical characters from his region. Besides this book on Sr Mary of St Joseph OCD, Teresa’s great disciple, he has also written books about St Edith Stein and Jerome Gratian.
About the translator: Fr John McGowan was born in London in 1950. He entered the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1975 and was ordained in 1982. In 1985 he obtained a Licentiate in Spirituality from the OCD Carmelite Pontifical College in Rome. At present he works at ODC Carmelite retreat centre, in Preston, England.
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