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Levitation was the last thing Teresa of Avila wanted. It drew the wrong kind of attention and embarrassed her in public. She tried to remain grounded, clinging to furniture when the weightlessness set in, and then suddenly, it stopped for good. Carlos Eire reads Teresa's autobiographic *Vida* and finds the 16th-century saint complaining to God about the aethrobatic miracles that he forced her to endure.

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