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====Holy relics==== {{more citations needed section|date=October 2020}} She was buried at the Convento de la Anunciación in [[Alba de Tormes]]. Nine months after her death the coffin was opened and her body was found to be [[Incorruptibility|intact]] but the clothing had rotted. Before the body was re-interred one of her hands was cut off, wrapped in a scarf and sent to Ávila. Gracián cut the little finger off the hand and – according to his own account – kept it with him until he was captured by [[Barbary corsairs]] when sailing from [[Messina]] to Rome, from whom he had to redeem it with a few rings and 20 reales.<ref name="Pérez">{{cite book |last1=Pérez |first1=Joseph |title=Teresa de Ávila: Y la España de su tiempo |date=2007 |publisher=EDAF |isbn=978-84-96107-80-9 |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PM_SRnwSaMC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA142#v=onepage&q&f=false |access-date=13 May 2025 |language=es}}</ref> The body was exhumed again on 25 November 1585 to be moved to Ávila and found to be incorrupt. An arm was removed and left in Alba de Tormes at the nuns' request, to compensate for losing the main relic of Teresa, but the rest of the body was reburied in the Discalced Carmelite chapter house in Ávila. The removal was done without the approval of the Duke of Alba de Tormes and he brought the body back in 1586, with [[Pope Sixtus V]] ordering that it remain in Alba de Tormes on pain of excommunication. A grander tomb on the original site was raised in 1598 and the body was moved to a new chapel in 1616. The body still remains there, except for the following parts: * Rome – right foot and part of the upper jaw * [[Lisbon]] – hand * [[Ronda]], Spain – left eye and left hand (the latter was kept by [[Francisco Franco]] until his death, after Francoist troops captured it from Republican troops during the [[Spanish Civil War]]) * Museum of the Church of the Annunciation, Alba de Tormes – left arm and heart * [[Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris|Church of Our Lady of Loreto]], [[Paris]], France – one finger * [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda]] – one finger [[File:Ecstasy of Saint Teresa September 2015-2a.jpg|thumb|The ''[[Ecstasy of Saint Teresa]]'' by [[Bernini]], Basilica of [[Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome]]|alt=|left|353x353px]] On August 28, 2024, it was made the canonical recognition of Teresa's body. The postulator general of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, Father Marco Chiesa, announced that those present at the scene were able to see that "it is in the same condition as when it was last opened in 1914."<ref>{{cite web|publisher=National Catholic Register|date=August 30, 2024|title=Carmelites find St. Teresa of Ávila's body still incorrupt after opening coffin for study of relics|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/religious-life/carmelites-find-st-teresa-vilas-body-still-incorrupt-after-opening-coffin-study}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258989/st-teresa-of-avila-s-body-remains-incorrupt-after-almost-5-centuries|title=St. Teresa of Ávila's body remains incorrupt after almost 5 centuries|date=August 29, 2024|publisher=Catholic News Agency|author=[[Walter Sánchez Silva]]}}</ref> When the body was publicly exposed in May 2025, memes on social media questioned the incorrupted state of the corpse.<ref name="Rastreador">{{cite news |last1=El Rastreador |title=Críticas y memes en redes sociales por la exhibición del cuerpo "incorrupto" de santa Teresa |url=https://www.eldiario.es/rastreador/criticas-memes-exhibicion-cuerpo-incorrupto-santa-teresa-llegan-redes-sociales_132_12291858.html |access-date=13 May 2025 |work=ElDiario.es |date=12 May 2025 |language=es}}</ref>
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