From the life of St. Teresa of Jesus of the Andes:
It seemed that from the time Juanita was young she had the presentiment or a certain interior illumination that she would die early in life. Her choice of Carmel was reinforced by the desire to find a particularly suitable environment wherein she could attain holiness as rapidly as possible. One day she pressed Father Blanch to tell her where she could be sanctified more quickly, because "Our Lord had made me understand that I would live only a short while."
In March of 1920, when Lent had already begun, Sister Teresa told her confessor-Father Avertano, a Discalced Carmelite--that she would die within a month. She asked that he authorize her to intensify her penance for the sins of mankind.
On Good Friday of the same year, she was discovered to have a high fever from Typhus.
On April 5 she requested the Sacraments of the sick.
On April 7 she was granted permission to make her religious profession.
On Monday April 12, 1920 she died very sweetly, at seven fifteen at night.
She was canonized on March 21, 1993 by Pope John Paul II
Peace be with you!
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