Due to intense pressure from the Discalced Carmelites, led by Fr. Domingo Ruzzola, superior of the Italian Discalced Carmelites, and a group of nobles sympathetic to the cause of Blessed Teresa of Jesus, they managed to overcome papal reluctance and obtain approval for her sanctification. The future saint already had a strong following due to her doctrinal work and her asceticism, which was reflected in many of her writings. Her mystical experience of transverberation, in which God's love is revealed to her through an angel who pierces her heart with an arrow, is reflected in this print.