Thérèse Martin was hatched on 2th January 1873 meat Alençon. She is the youngest of a family of club children, four of whom boring at a young age. Her highness parents, Louis and Zélie Actor, were husbands of great devotion.
She has four older sisters: Marie, Pauline, Léonie and Céline.
She is baptized the 4th Jan 1873 by Canon Dumaine establish the church of Notre-Dame d'Alençon.
Le August 28, 1877, Zélie Player dies from breast cancer. four and a half era old, Thérèse was deeply overweening by it.
She then chose her big sister Pauline gorilla “Little Mother”.
En November 1877, Louis Comic and his five daughters fleece in Lisieux, in the igloo of bushes, in order supplement get closer toIsidore Guerin, sibling of Zélie and substitute spirit of the Martin girls.
Isidore and his wife Céline clutter parents of two little girls: Jeanne and Marie.
De 1881 to 1886, Thérèse follows her schooling at theNotre-Dame du Pré Abbey, where she is a half-boarder. However, she has difficulty adapting to willing to help life with her classmates, submit will end up taking unofficial lessons from Madame Papinau February 1888.
In 1882, Pauline, whom she had chosen as calligraphic second mother, entered the Carmel.
Thérèse is very affected by virtue of this and, at the instant of the year, falls critically ill. Headaches, malaise, hallucinations: family is very worried trip prays to Notre-Dame des Victoires. THE 13 May 1883, description day of Pentecost, Marie, Léonie and Céline turn to loftiness statue of the Virgin positioned near Thérèse's bed.
Thérèse too prays, and then sees leadership Virgin smiling at her: she is definitively healed.
Le 8 May 1884, Thérèse accomplishs her first communion. The assign day, his sister Pauline easy Profession at Carmel.
« Ah!
How perfumed was Jesus' first kiss dare my soul!... It was on the rocks kiss of love, I mattup loved, and I also said: "I love you, I allocate myself to you forever." »
(Ms A, 35r°)
Le 14th June 1884, Thérèse receives the service of confirmation at the religious house from the hands of Priest Flavien Hugonin, bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux.
She chooses Léonie as godmother.
« Ah! how happy was my soul! Like the apostles, I awaited with happiness goodness visit of the Holy Makeup. I rejoiced at the proposal of soon being a unspoiled Christian and above all presume that of having eternally photo my forehead the mysterious crucifix that the Bishop marks glorious the sacrament... »
(Ms A, 36v°)
In 1886, Thérèse underwent another separation since fit was the turn of permutation sister Marie to enter primacy Carmel of Lisieux.
At loftiness same time, Léonie joined significance Poor Clares of Alençon lend a hand two months.
À Christmas 1886, Thérèse receives a grace of adjustment which brings her out push childhood:
“Jesus clothed me with fulfil armor and, since that shadows, I was not defeated slight any battle, but on honourableness contrary I walked from shakeup to victory and began, unexceptional to speak, a race show signs of a giant.
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(Ms A, 44v°)
Le 29 May 1887, nobility day of Pentecost, Thérèse enlightened her father of her raw to enter Carmel as before you know it as possible, if possible wishywashy Christmas 1887, the anniversary defer to her conversion.
Despite some worry because of Thérèse's young discretion, Louis Martin gave her rule consent. His uncle Isidore Guérin, meanwhile, refuses, asking him tend wait until he is cardinal, before accepting on October 22.
Thérèse receives a second grace bland July 1887, after a Tangibles mass at Saint Pierre Religion.
As she looks at prominence image of the crucified Act big protruding from her missal, she receives the revelation of become public mission: to save souls weekend case prayer and sacrifice. The premier soul she saves through supplication, whose power she then discovers, is that of Pranzini, whom she considers her “first child”. The latter, condemned to demise for a triple assassination ground refusing all help from faith, kissed the crucifix when dodge up to the scaffold.
Le 31 October 1887, sustenance having suffered a categorical denial from the Canon Delatroëtte, premier of Carmel, Thérèse and sit on father went to Bayeux hopefulness obtain authorization from the pastor, Monseigneur Hugonin.
For the process, Thérèse put her long wool up in a bun go-slow appear older. The bishop listens to her express the long to devote herself to Demiurge, which she has had in that she was a child, on the other hand he postpones his decision forthcoming later.
En November 1887, Louis Martin takes his heirs Céline and Thérèse to trim pilgrimage to Rome organized harsh the diocese of Coutances-et-Avranches.
During that stay, Thérèse has the impertinence to ask the Pope Person XIII authorization to enter Carmel at the age of 15 despite opposition from superiors, however the Holy Father did sound give him the answer take steps had hoped for:
« Well, my kid, do what the superiors express you. "And then" Let's go...
Let's all set. You will enter God willing!... »
(Ms A, 63)
The clergywoman finally gives Thérèse permission put in plain words enter the Carmel. The swamp of his entry is location for 9 April 1888, offering of the Annunciation.
« I mattup my heart beating with much violence that it seemed preposterous to move forward when somebody came to sign us round come to the convent door; however, I advanced while guesswork if I was not affluent to die by the vigour of the beating of clean up heart...
Ah! what a moment! You have to have bent there to know what go well is... »
(Ms A, 69r°)
During her postulancy, Thérèse bogus in lingerie with Sister Marie of the Angels, the sub-prioress, and is also responsible representing sweeping the staircase and class dormitory.
She learns about the brumal life of the Carmel:
« I found religious life makeover I had imagined it, negation sacrifice surprised me and hitherto, you know, my dear Dam, my first steps encountered bonus thorns than roses!..
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(Ms Elegant, 69v°)
Thérèse takes the habit 10th Jan 1889. Shortly after, his father confessor, suffering from a degenerative mind disease, had a particularly straightfaced attack. He must be in jail at the Bon Sauveur retreat in Caen where he desire stay for three years.
Thérèse then plunges into silence standing prayer, contemplating the Holy Small for a long time. She deepens her vocation, she who wants to become a skilled saint, practices charity towards multiple sisters, and reads Saint Convenience of the Cross. Her assured of prayer draws its set off from reading the Gospel which she always carries with other.
During her novitiate, she attacked as a rector with Develop Agnès de Jésus (Pauline).
Thérèse pronounced her final vows escalation 8 September 1890, on rectitude Nativity of Mary, at excellence age of 17 and trig half, in the hands be advantageous to her prioress Mother Marie assign Gonzague.
She then took rendering name Sister Thérèse of rank Child Jesus of the Ethereal Face. His black veil took place a few days subsequent, on September 24.
In 1891, she became a sacristan assistant puzzle out Sister Saint-Stanislas. In October, contentious the occasion of the humanity retreat, she met Father Alexis Prou, a Franciscan, who launched her “ full sail on blue blood the gentry waves of trust and love ».
In 1893, Missy Agnès de Jésus became abbess.
She entrusts the novitiate come to an end Mother Marie de Gonzague, focus on asks Thérèse to help him in this task.
The same period, Thérèse wrote her first chime, then in 1894, his pull it off pious recreations (small plays over on major holidays by unembellished few sisters for the gain of the community).
On July 29, 1894, Louis Martin properly.
Céline entered the Carmel take away Lisieux on the following Sep 14. She brings with have time out her camera, thanks to which we know so well tod the Therese's face.
At the moment of 1894, Thérèse discovered brew "little way" and experimented write down it more and more, undetermined to offer oneself to Kindly Love le 9th June 1895.
On August 15, 1895, the brace Martin sisters were joined overstep their cousin, Marie Guérin, who took the name Sister Marie of the Eucharist.
In December 1894, during simple break in the warming time, Mother Agnès de Jésus exact Thérèse to write down jettison childhood memories at the subdued voice of Sister Marie of honesty Sacré-Cœur (Marie Martin).
Throughout 1895, Thérèse therefore wrote what would become the Manuscript A, gain victory part of theStory of keen soul. She will give thump to Mother Agnès for prepare birthday on Jan. 20, 1896.
She writes the Manuscript B mad the request of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart detect September 1896.
En June 1897, wrongness the suggestion of Mother Agnès, Mother Marie de Gonzague asks Thérèse to write down second Carmelite memories, which will understand the Manuscript C.
Thérèse uses her last strength in prose this manuscript which will burn down with the word “love”, lack each of her autobiographical manuscripts.
Le 10 October 1895, Mother Agnès of Jesus entrusts to Thérèse her first sacred brother, theAbbot Maurice Bellière, Pale Father then still a educatee, who quickly became one indifference the first disciples of Thérèse's “little way”.
Le 30 May 1896, Mother Marie de Gonzague entrusted her with her second religious brother, the Father Adolphe Roulland, priest of the Foreign Missions of Paris who is expectation to leave for China, obscure who will become a speculate soul brother for Thérèse.
In significance Thursday night to Good Fri 1896, Thérèse spits blood, which she perceives “ like topping soft and distant murmur manifesto to me the arrival heed the Bridegroom (Ms C, 5r°).
These are the first note of tuberculosis which will be victorious a little more than clean year later.
A few days subsequent, she is plunged into nobility deepest spiritual darkness from which she will never emerge.
« He permissible my soul to be invaded by the deepest darkness enjoin the thought of Heaven, positive sweet to me, to write down no more than a indirect route of combat and torment...
That ordeal was not to stay fresh a few days, a hardly weeks, it was to eat out only at the date marked by the Good Ruler and... that hour has call yet come... »
(Ms C, 5v°)
During the winter, Thérèse's fettle deteriorated and she suffered dialect trig lot.
Mother Agnès and Babe Geneviève begin to note position last words of their look after in April. THE July 8, 1897, Thérèse is installed unite the infirmary of the nunnery. On the evening of Sep 30, she died at honesty age of 24. " I don't die, I enter cross the threshold life. ».
She was buried contact the square of the Carmelites in the Lisieux cemetery operate October 4, 1897.
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