Marie Frances Therese Martin was born on January 2, 1873
in Alencon in Normandy, France. She entered the Convent of the Carmelites of Lisieux in
1888 at the age of fifteen. she died on September 30, 1897.
She tells the story of her years in the Carmelites and the formation years
within her family preceding her entry into Carmel in her autobiography, The
Story of a Soul. This account tells something of the great love for Jesus
that inspired every action of her brief life.
The tenderness and passion in her expression of that love in no way
undermined the strength and the power of the asceticism that was an integral part of her
daily round of tasks and relationships. |
