The tranverberate thing is weird. It's listed in the dictionary as "To beat or strike through", but it has a second meaning in Catholicism involving an ecstatic experience, related to a "dart of love" piercing the heart and inflaming within it an intense love of God. Source:http://maryschild.blogspot.com/2005/08/feast-of-transverberation-of-st-teresa.html
The tranverberate thing is weird. It's listed in the dictionary as "To beat or strike through", but it has a second meaning in Catholicism involving an ecstatic experience, related to a "dart of love" piercing the heart and inflaming within it an intense love of God. Source:http://maryschild.blogspot.com/2005/08/feast-of-transverberation-of-st-teresa.html