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	Saint Teresa Saint Teresa For saints thus named use Theresa, Saint.... Read more
	Mother Teresa Mother Teresa 1910-97, Roman Catholic missionary in India, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, b. Skopje (now in Macedonia) as Agnes Goxha Bojaxhiu. Of Albanian parentage, she went to India at 17, becoming a nun and teaching school in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In 1948 she left the convent and... Read more
	Teresa of Avila TERESA OF ÁVILA (1515 Read more
	Saint Theresa Saint Theresa (Theresa of Ávila) , 1515-82, Spanish Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church, one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the greatest mystics, and a leading figure in the Counter Reformation . Life Her original name was Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, and her... Read more
	Charles Atlas Charles Atlas Charles Atlas (1893-1972) embodied the nineteenth-century ideal of the self-made man—a dream of self-improvement and rapid transformation that began with a strengthened, healthy body. By 1942, more than 400,000 copies of the Atlas program of self-development had been sold. ... Read more
	Teresa Carreno Teresa Carreño , 1853-1917, Venezuelan pianist; pupil of L. M. Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein. Her debut was made in New York in 1862. She appeared as an opera singer for a brief period but thereafter continued her piano career, becoming known as one of the foremost pianists of her time. She... Read more
	Alfonso I (Portugal) Alfonso I 1109?-1185, first king of Portugal, son of Henry of Burgundy. After his father's death (1112), his mother, Countess Teresa, ruled the county of Portugal with the help of her Spanish lover, Fernando Pérez. In 1128 young Alfonso, who had allied himself with discontented nobles,... Read more
	Saint John of the Cross Saint John of the Cross Span. Juan de la Cruz, 1542-91, Spanish mystic and poet, Doctor of the Church. His name was originally Juan de Yepes. He was a founder of the Discalced Carmelites and a close friend of St. Theresa of Ávila, who guided him in his spiritual life. Because of his ardor... Read more
	George Moore George Moore 1852-1933, English author, b. Ireland. As a young man he lived in Paris, studying at various art schools. Inspired by Zola, Flaubert, Turgenev, and the 19th-century French realists, Moore turned to writing, publishing his first novel, A Modern Lover, in 1883. A Mummer's Wife ... Read more
	Alfonso IX Alfonso IX 1171-1230, Spanish king of León (1188-1230), son and successor of Ferdinand II. He conquered from the Moors several cities in Estremadura and was frequently at war with Alfonso VIII of Castile. His marriages with Teresa of Portugal and Berenguela of Castile were both annulled by... Read more