As the old prioress, Madame de Croissy, lies writhing on her deathbed, she cries out that God has forsaken her and the Carmeliteorder.
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What really distinguished her was a strength of character and political astuteness that enabled her to reform the CarmeliteOrder and found 17 convents across Spain.
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Her reformist ideas were strongly opposed within the Carmeliteorder and other religious orders frequently tried to keep her out of cities already bursting with convents and monasteries.