On April 20, the latest volume of the prestigious TPM (Texts for a Millennium) collection, entitled "Flowers of the Carmel of Andalusia", was presented at the Carmelite Monastery of Seville. It is the work of Fernando de la Corte (1685-1759), a Carmelite from Granada, in which he recounts the founding of some of the most important monasteries of the contemplative Carmel in Andalusia: Seville (Santa Ana), Seville (Belen), Villalba del Alcor, Cañete la Real and Utrera. De la Corte also presents the lives of a series of venerable figures of the Andalusian female Carmel. It is, in short, a very valuable work to know the evolution of the Carmel in this part of Spain in the post-Tridentine period. The book also includes an extensive introductory study by historian Pedro Godoy Domínguez, in which he frames the founding of these convents in their historical context.
The book was presented by Doña Rosario Vera, Prioress of the Third Order of Carmel of Seville, and Father Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm. and the editor of the book, Pedro Godoy Domínguez, intervened. Both highlighted the contribution of this work to the Carmelite historiography and the need to make known these texts that form the living history of the Carmel of a certain historical period.