She was born as Flavia Benedetti in Rome; she entered Carmel in 1628 and painted many works for her Roman convent of S. Giuseppe a Capo le Case of the Discalced Carmelites.
[1] Her father was a Roman patrician and she had three brothers, one a Capuchin friar, and one, the abbott Elpidio, secretary to Cardinal Mazarin, who also collected art and was an amateur architect.
[1][2] Destroyed mural paintings include a Last Supper, the ecstasy of Saint Teresa; Christ and the woman from Samaria and a Noli me Tangere.
[1] There is also a surviving canvas depicting Saint Teresa protecting Carmelite nuns attributed to Maria, also similar to print imagery.
[1] The stories of the repentant Mary Magdalene and the woman from Samaria were significant to Saint Teresa, as was the image of Christ's nourishing blood.