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One day, when Saint Teresa was taking her turn in the kitchen, she was carried off into ecstasy while still holding a frying pan in her hand. The nuns were alarmed–not to see her in ecstasy, for they had grown used to that–but because they feared she might spill the cooking oil, which was the last they had in the convent. — Stephen Clissold, Wisdom of the Spanish Mystics