rvant of
her Sisters in religion, and in that same spirit of humility she
endeavoured to obey all without distinction.

One evening, during her illness, the Community had assembled in
the garden to sing a hymn before an Altar of the Sacred Heart.
Soeur Therese, who was already wasted by fever, joined them with
difficulty, and, arriving quite exhausted, was obliged to sit down
at once. When the hymn began, one of the Sisters made her a sign
to stand up. Without hesitation, the humble child rose, and, in
spite of the fever and great oppression from which she was
suffering, remained standing to the end.

The Infirmarian had advised her to take a little walk in the
garden for a quarter of an hour each day. This recommendation was
for her a command. One afternoon a Sister, noticing what an effort
it cost her, said: "Soeur Therese, you would do much better to
rest; walking like this cannot do you any good. You only tire
yourself!" "That is true," she replied, "but, do you know what
gives me strength? I offer each step for some missionary. I think
that possibly, over there, far away, one of them is weary and
tired in his apostolic labours, and to lessen his fatigue I offer
mine to the Good God."

She gave her novices some beautiful examples of detachment. One
year the relations of the Sisters and the servants of the Convent
had sent bouquets of flowers for Mother Prioress's feast. Therese
was arranging them most tastefully, when a Lay-sister said
crossly: "It is easy to see that the large bouquets have been
given by your friends. I suppose those sent by the poor will again
be put in the background!" . . . A sweet smile was the only reply,
and notwithstanding the unpleasing effect, she immediately put the
flowers sent by the servants in the most conspicuous place.

Struck with admiration, the Lay-sister went at once to the
Prioress to accuse herself of her unkindness, and to praise the
patience and humility shown by Soeur Therese.

After the death of Therese that same Sister, full of confidence,
pressed her forehead against the feet of the saintly nun, once
more asking forgiveness for her fault. At the same instant she
felt herself cured of cerebral anaemia, from which she had suffered
for many years, and which had prevented her from applying herself
either to reading or mental prayer.

Far from avoiding humiliations, Soeur Therese sought them eagerly,
and for that reason she offered herself as "aid" to a Sister who,