Church of San Niccolò al Carmine

Transverberation of Saint Teresa

  • GIUSEPPE MARIA COLLIGNON (1778 -?) 1825

    The first painting on the left wall of the church describes the transverberation of Saint Teresa of Avila, one of the most famous Carmelite Saints who, in her autobiography, recounts the most shocking ecstatic vision of her life: “I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. (…) I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's . . .