Meher Baba in Spain, Meeting Place

Part of Charles Haynes and Christopher Wilson’s Artist in Residence Program

Meher Baba in Spain

“I am so happy here.” -Meher Baba

Meher Baba singled out St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) as one of His favorite Western saints and as a model of how to love Him. In October 1933, He took a group of His Eastern and Western disciples to visit places associated with her life in Avila, saying “I am so happy here.” The group then went to Madrid,

where Baba spent two hours at the Prado Museum and was pleased by the paintings of the lives of Jesus and the saints by El Greco and other Spanish artists. Christopher will discuss the sites that Baba visited; the life, work, and writings of St. Teresa; and the paintings that He admired.