Body of St Teresa draws tens of thousands to Spanish church
'She looks good for her age,' said a pilgrim moments after gazing upon the corpse of St Teresa of Avila, who has been dead for more than 440 years.
Beholding the desiccated remains of the Spanish mystic in the flesh, as it were, moved many of the faithful to comment approvingly on her physical state.
'She's muy chiquitita [very small], the señora,' said a middle-aged woman in the Venecia bar at Alba de Tormes, where in the Carmelite convent's basilica the saint's corpse, dressed in the habit of her order and reposed in an open silver coffin, has been exhibited for the past two weeks.
Nearly 70,000 people — rich and poor, dukes and nuns — have flocked from across Spain and as far
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