Just who was this Saint who would become the patron of a little stone church, in a tiny village in central Connecticut? And what connection would he have to a sister parish just a few miles to the west? The precise reasons for the selection of Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Avila are unclear, but what is quite evident to anyone at all familiar with Church history is that close relationship of these two Saints of teh 16th Century. That two sister parishes should be named for them will become increasingly clear as we review their lives.