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THÉRÈSE MARTIN was born at Alençon, France on 2 January 1873. Two days later, she was baptized Marie Frances Thérèse at Notre Dame Church. Her parents were Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin. After the death of her mother on 28 August 1877, Thérèse and her family moved to Lisieux.
Towards the end of 1879, she went to confession for the first time. On the Feast of Pentecost 1883, she received the singular grace of being healed from a serious illness through the intercession of Our Lady of Victories. Taught by the Benedictine Nuns of Lisieux and after an intense immediate preparation culminating in a vivid experience of intimate union with Christ, she received First Holy Communion on 8 May 1884. Some weeks later, on 14 June of the same year, she received the Sacrament of Confirmation, fully aware of accepting the gift of the Holy Spirit as a personal participation in the grace of Pentecost.
She wished to embrace the contemplative life, as her sisters Pauline and Marie had done in the Carmel of Lisieux, but was prevented from doing so by her young age. On a visit to Italy, after having visited the House of Loreto and the holy places of the Eternal City, during an audience granted by Pope Leo XIII to the pilgrims from L
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A very ordinary life
(by Monsignor Guy Gaucher)
The holiness of Thérèse does not rest on extraordinary phenomena. It consists of "doing very ordinary things in an extraordinary way!" "
It is very difficult to realize that Thérèse Martin's life was quite ordinary. Because she became Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face, known throughout the world, with many titles (Universal Patron Saint of Missions, Secondary Patron Saint of France, Doctor of the Church, etc.), we forget that she went unnoticed by her family, her entourage, her Carmel, her spiritual father, her bishop, etc. Certainly, in Lisieux, we could talk about a young girl who had the audacity to speak to Pope Leo XIII during an audience in Rome (a national newspaper had reported it). Then she entered Carmel at fifteen years and three months. But when she died, unknown, in a small provincial Carmel, there were barely 30 people at her funeral in the cemetery of Lisieux. At his canonization in St. Peter's in Rome on May 17, 1925, there will be 500000. So?
So, yes, a very ordinary and very hidden life.
Alencon (1873-1877)
A Christian family, in Alençon, father Louis Martin, watchmaker and jeweler, mother, Zélie Guérin, lacemaker. They had nine children, four of whom died in infancy. Four daughters r
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