An early engraving of the saint made in Rome in 1603.

In the cloister of the Discalced Carmelites of San José, an important collection of engraved prints is preserved, acquired by Leonor de la Misericordia (Ayanz y Beaumont), whose facsimile we published in 2004. All of them were bound and numbered in the 17th century, after their acquisition by the aforementioned Carmelite, in the last years of the 16th century. Leonor's fondness for engraved images led her to illustrate the manuscript copies of one of her works, the Life of Catalina de Cristo, foundress of Soria, Pamplona and Barcelona, with ad hoc engravings, in relation to the subjects of the different chapters. Leonor had acquired in her youth an exquisite humanist training with Doña Brianda de Beaumont, daughter and heiress of the Constable of Navarre, remembered by Lope de Vega in La Arcadia (1598), as "the divine Doña Brianda, glory of Beaumonte".

Particularly interesting for the Carmel of Pamplona and the city is the engraving that represents Mother Teresa of Jesus, according to the models popularized in her first prints, which closely follow the portrait that Fray Juan de la Miseria made of her in 1576. It repeats the praying model with joined hands, contemplating the Paraclete, accompanied by a phylactery where we read the well-known phrase: MISERICORDIAS DOMINI IN AETERNUM CANTABO. We know the generous patron of the engraving, who is none other than the one who also had the plate of Catalina de Cristo opened in 1603 in Rome. He is Don Francisco de Soto, a priest from Soria, first soprano and Dean, for many years, of the Sistine Chapel, chaplain of Clement VIII, who in 1597 founded in the Eternal City the first convent of Discalced Carmelites. An inordinate registration gives us an account of the main events of his life. The purpose of the print was, without a doubt, postulatory, at a time when the processes of beatification were in full swing, since they were opened in Salamanca in 1591.