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news magazine of St. Teresa’s Academy: The Dart, and it’s been a defining feature of STA for many years.

The Dart is believed to have been STA’s source for news since 1941, but the origin of its name begins long before that. In 1559, St. Teresa of Avila’s transverberation, or piercing through, took place.

According to her journal, “The Book of Her Life,” an angel pierced St. Teresa’s heart with a dart.

“I saw in his [the angel’s] hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire,” Teresa wrote. “He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God.”

St. Teresa described the spiritual pain as being so pleasant that she “could not wish to be rid of it” and called it a “caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God”.

St. John of the Cross elaborated on the event.

St. Teresa’s Academy’s newspaper, The Dart, has been the school’s publication for over 80 years, and has touched many students’ lives in that time.