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THE CHILDREN OF LOUIS STANISLAS MARTIN (1823-1894)
AND
MARIE ZELIE GUERIN (1831-1877)
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2. Marie Pauline (1861-1951)...90 years old
(Mother Agnes of Jesus)...Carmelite
3. Marie Leonie (1863-1941 )...78 years old
(Sister Francoise-Therese)· ··Visitandine
4. Marie Helene (l864...died at 4 -1/2 years)
5. Marie Joseph Louis (1866...died 5 months later)
6. Marie Joseph Jean Baptiste (1867...died 9 months later)
7. Marie Celine (1869- 1959)...90 years old
(Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face)...Carmelite
8. Marie Melanie Therese (1870...died 3 months later)
9. Marie Francoise Therese (1873- 1897)...24 years old
(Sister Therese of the the Child Jesus and the Holy Face)...Carmelite
Celine 
Leonie 
Pauline 
Marie
"Jesus is at my side. He keeps calling me to Himself, and I can't do anything but adore Him in silence, desiring to die of love. I would want, like little Therese of the Child Jesus, to renew my offering as a "victim of holocaust" to his Merciful Love with every beat of my heart. I wait in the night; I wait in peace. "I wait for Love!" Within 5 hours...I will see Jesus!" (Jacques Fesch, 27 years old, prisoner put to death on Oct 1, 1957)
St. Therese of the (Child Jesus had her definitive "conversion" the same day I did: Christmas 1886." (Paul Claudel, writer)
"We desire that the sanctity of Sister 'l`herese of the Child Jesus, not remain hidden from any of our sons and daughters." (Pope Benedict XV, 1921)
"I place my right hand in that of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and my left in St.Theresa's, so that they may lead me to Jesus." (Andre Levet)
"I send you a few lines since I am in prison and I think a lot about you. I am not here for long; it is nothing serious. My wife and I went to see you recently and as soon as I can, I will go to see you with my son, who just turned 4 months. Oh, around my neck 1 have your medal and my Jesus Christ. I will get out of prison on March 24th. I will make a drawing for you, which 1 know you will like. St. Therese, 1 bid you good-by, and I send you a loving kiss; my wife and son do the same. (Serge X, prisoner)
"St. Therese of-lisieux is my patroness.
The white rose bushes that I planted in my garden in front of her statue
bloom nearly all year round." (Alain Mimoun, Muslim,
Olymphic marathon champ, ex-world champ)
Your soul is called to raise itself to God by the
elevator of love
and not to climb the rough stairway of fear.
(Letters)
Jesus has no need of books or teachers
to instruct souls; He teaches without the noise of
words.
Never have I heard Him speak, but I feel
that He is within me at each
moment; He is guiding and
inspiring me with what I must say and do.
(Ms.A)
O Jesus! I feel that if You found a soul weaker and littler than mine, which is impossible, You would be pleased to grant it still greater favors, provided it abandoned itself with total confidence to Your Infinite Mercy, (Ms.B)
I have no other means of proving my love
for you other than that
of strewing flowers, that is,
not allowing one little sacrifice to escape,
not one look, one word, profiting by all the
smallest things
and doing them through love. (Ms
B)
WHAT PLEASES HIM IS THAT HE SEES ME LOVING MY LITTLENESS AND MY POVERTY,
THE BLIND HOPE THAT I HAVE IN HIS MERCY. (LETTERS)
To love Jesus, to be His victim of love,
the weaker one is, without desires or virtues, the more suited
consuming and transforming love.
(Letters)
The feast of the Holy Trinity, I received the grace
to understand
more than ever before
how much Jesus desires to be loved. (Ms. A)
Lord, God, we gather to praise you
and to thank you for the witness of your daughter,
St. Therese of the Child Jesus.
She knew that alone she could do nothing.
but through your grace she found her place
as love in tile heart of Mother Church.
May we, her spiritual children,
live in the same trusting faith
which calls to the Father
to be lifted into His arms
and carried gently close to His heart.
Your grace transforms all.
Allow our lives of simplicity, trust, and love
to be hope for your Church
and to reflect your love for all the world.
Through Jesus Christ our Love. Amen.
"I have come to Carmel
to save souls and pray
for priests."
St. Therese
Act of Oblation to Merciful Love
J.M.J.T.
Offering of myself as a Victim of Holocaust to God's Merciful Love!
0 My God! Most Blessed Trinity, I desire to Love You and make you Loved, to work for the glory of Holy Church by saving souls on earth and liberating those suffering in purgatory. I desire to accomplish Your Mill perfectly and to reach the degree of glory You have prepared for me in Your Kingdom. I desire, in a word, to be a saint, but I feel my helplessness and I beg You, O my God! to be Yourself my Sanctity!
Since You loved me so much as to give me Your only Son as my Savior and my Spouse, the infinite treasures of His merits are mine. I offer them to You with gladness, begging You to look upon me only in the Face of Jesus and in His heart burning with Love.
I offer You, too, all the merits of the saints (in heaven and on earth), their acts of Love, and those of the holy angels. Finally, I offer You, 0 Blessed Trinity.' the Love and merits of the Blessed Virgin, m3' dear Mother. It is to her I abandon my offering, begging her to present it to You. Her Divine Son, my Beloved Spouse, told us in the days of His mortal life: "Whatsoever you ask the Father in m3~ name he will give it to you."! am certain, then, that You will grant m): desires; I know, 0 my God that the more You want to give, the more You make us desire. i feel in mv heart immense desires and it is with confidence I ask You to come and take possession of m7' soul. Ah! I cannot receive Holy Communion as often as I desire, but, Lord, are You not all powerful? Remain in me as in a tabernacle and never separate Yourself from Your little victim.
I want to console You far the ingratitude of the wicked, and I beg of You to take away); my freedom to displease You. If through weakness I sometimes fall, may Your Divine Glance cleanse my soul immediately, consuming all my imperfections like the fire that transforms everything into itself. Appendices
I thank You, O my God! for all the graces You have granted me, especially the grace of making me pass through the crucible of suffering. It is with joy I shall contemplate You on the Last Day carrying the scepter of Your Cross. Since You deigned to give me a share in this very precious Cross, I hope in heaven to resemble You and to see shining in my glorified body the sacred stigmata of Your Passion.
After earth's Exile, I hope to go and enjoy You in the Fatherland, but I do not want to lay up merits for heaven. I want to work for Your Love alone with the one purpose of pleasing You, consoling Your Sacred Heart, and saving souls who will love You eternally.
In the evening of this life, I shall appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my works. All our justice is stained in Your eyes. I wish, then, to be clothed in Your own Justice and to receive from Your Love the eternal possession of Yourself. I want no other Throne, no other Crown but You, my Beloved!
Time is nothing in Your eyes, and a single day is like a thousand years. You can, then, in one instant prepare me to appear before You.
In order to live in one single act of perfect Love, I OFFER MYSELF AS A VICTIM OF HOLOCAUST TO YOUR MERCIFUL LOVE, asking You to consume me incessantly, allowing the waves of infinite tendeness shut up within You to overflow into my soul, and that thus I may become a martyr of Your Love, O my God!
May this martyrdom, after having prepared me to appear before You, finally cause me to die and may my soul take its flight without any delay into the eternal embrace of Your Merciful Love.
I want, 0 my Beloved, at each beat of my heart to renew this offering to You an infinite number of rimes, until the shadows having disappeared I may be able to tell You of my Love in an Eternal Face to Face!
Marie-Francoise-Therese of the Child Jesus
and the Holy Face, unworthy Carmelite religious
This 9th day of June,
Feast of the Most Holy Trinity,
In the year of grace, 1895.
