Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady,
Nov. 21, 1829. He was martyred at Kecho, Tong-King, on the Feast
of the Presentation of Our Lord, Feb. 2, 1861, at the age of 32. A
long and delightful correspondence with his family, begun in his
college days and completed from his "cage" at Kecho, reveals a
kinship of poesy as well as of sanctity and of the love of home,
between the two "spring flowers." The beauty of his soul was so
visible in his boyish face that he was spared all torture during
his two months in the "cage." In 1909, the year in which Therese
became "Servant of God" by the commencement of the Episcopal
Process, her patron received the honours of Beatification. Another
child of France--Joan, its "Martyr-Maid"--whose praises have been
sung in affectionate verse by the Saints of St. Loup and Lisieux,
was beatified that same year. [Ed.]

[5] An allusion to the obituary notice sent to each of the French
Carmels when a Carmelite nun dies in that country. In the case of
those who die in the odour of sanctity these notices sometimes run
to considerable length. Four notices issued from the Carmel of
Lisieux are of great interest to the clients of Soeur Therese, and
are in course of publication at the Orphans' Press, Rochdale;
those of the Carmel's saintly Foundress, Mother Genevieve of St.
Teresa, whose death is referred to in Chapter VIII; Mother Mary of
Gonzaga, the Prioress of Therese; Sister Mary of the Eucharist
(Marie Guerin), the cousin of Therese (Chapter III); and most
interesting of all, the long sketch, partly autobiographical, of
Mother Mary of St. Angelus (Marie Ange), the "trophy of Therese,"
brought by her intercession to the Carmel in 1902--where the
writer made her acquaintance in the following spring; she became
Prioress in 1908, dying eighteen months later in the odour of
sanctity, aged only 28. [Ed.]

[6] Cf. Job 13:15.

[7] John 3:34.

[8] When asked before her death how they should pray to her in
Heaven, Soeur Therese, with her wonted simplicity, made answer:
"You will call me 'Little Therese'--_petite Therese."_ And at
Gallipoli, on the occasion of her celebrated apparition in the
Carmel there, when the Prioress, taking her to be St. Teresa of
Avila, addressed her as "our holy Mother," the visitor, adopting
her then official title, replied:--"Nay, I am not our holy
Mother, I am the Servant of God, _Soeur Therese of Lisieux_."
This, her own name of Soeur Therese, has been retained in the
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