The Visions of

St. Teresa:

What the Saint from Avila Can Teach Us About Holiness.

Explore the remarkable life, visions, and teachings of the Doctor of Prayer, St. Teresa of Avila on Sunday, May 22nd at 3 pm in the Parish Center. We'll have refreshments provided by our Altar Society Culinary Committee and the talk will be given by our local expert and fellow parishioner, Dr. Denise DuPont.

Dr. Denise DuPont is Professor of Spanish at SMU. She received her PhD from Yale University (1993), and an MTS from the Perkins School of Theology at SMU (2018). At SMU, she teaches courses in Spanish literature and culture from the medieval period through the nineteenth century; team-teaches courses in Catholic literature and theology and on the figure of Mary with colleagues from Perkins, and also team-teaches a course on the medieval pilgrimage with other SMU colleagues. Professor DuPont has written three books, the first on the traces of romanticism in Spanish realist texts, the second on representations of St. Teresa of Jesus (of Ávila) in late nineteenth-century Spanish literature, and the third on the Catholic worldview of Spain’s first feminist, Emilia Pardo Bazán. Prof. DuPont was received into the Catholic Church in 2018, at Christ the King, where she and her husband, Jesús Soto Hernández, are parishioners. Jesús teaches Spanish at Bishop Dunne Catholic School. Jesús and Denise have five children and two grandchildren, some of whom live in the U.S. and some in Spain.