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This article returns to bring to the forefront the important role they played music and poetry in the life of Carmel reformed by St. Teresa of Jesus. Music was simplified to the maximum in the liturgy to mark its sacredness and end, following the mandates of the Council of Trent, the abuses it had been introduced. However, in the form of sung poetry, coplas, reached a great development in the daily life of the Carmelites Discalced, especially in recreation, central moments in the life of fraternity. The Carmelites, following the model of Santa Teresa, adapted to life in the convent across the countless songs that marked the rhythm of life at the time, and created a poetic school-alive time-until recently, unprecedented in the poetry written by women from the Provencal trobairitz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper's aim is to establish the importance of St Peter Canisius's Summa christianae -and St John of Avila's Doctrina, one of its main sources- in the making of catholic catechisms during the period between the Council of Trento and the II Vatican Council. After a biographical account of St Peter Canisius and the writing of his catechisms, the influence of the Summa is analyzed, its text having become the semiofficial catechism of the Jesuit Company and its study having been declared compulsory in a greater part of the catholic world. The structure of the Summa is briefly analyzed. Also its relation with St John of Avila's Doctrina Cristiana and the spreading of its use in teaching, especially through catechisms written by Jesuits (Bellarminus, Marcus Jorge, Astete, Ripalda...). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]