The autobiography, letters, songs and prayers of St. Therese of Lisieux are all present in this complete hardcover edition of The Story of a Soul. Saint Therese was born in Alen on, Orne in 1873. Her youth was fraught with peril - the disease enteritis, having claimed the lives of her four siblings, was a grave challenge which she surmounted. Her family was religious, practising fasts and festivals in accordance with the Christian calendar, and practised tenets of the Christian faith such as giving charity to the unfortunate. A religious young prodigy, Therese felt a calling to the Christian faith during her teenage years, journeying to Lisieux in Normandy to begin her life as a cloistered nun. She entered into the convent at the age of fifteen, and soon impressed her peers with her purity of devotion and a deep understanding of many matters of faith. She was well-read, having found and absorbed many of the Christian documents of the past such as the Imitation of Christ. (Cover image by Nheyob.)

Santa Teresa de Lisieux ha sido un huracan de gloria desde su muerte a los veinticuatro anos de edad. Teresa fue una joven carmelita que impresiono a toda clase de personas en todo el mundo: intelectuales y analfabetos, activos y contemplativos, cristianos fervorosos y no practicantes, y hasta incluso a no cristianos. Teologos eminentes como Philipon y H. Urs von Balthasar han puesto de relieve la vida y los escritos de esta mujer oculta en el Carmelo. Con el titulo de Historia de un alma, Ines de Jesus, priora del mismo convento y hermana de la santa, publico, algo retocados, los Manuscritos autobiograficos de Teresa un ano despues de su muerte. Desde el ano 1957 se ha logrado la edicion autentica, sin anadiduras ni recortes, de dichos manuscritos.

The autobiography, letters, songs and prayers of St. Therese of Lisieux are all present in this complete edition of The Story of a Soul. Saint Therese was born in Alen on, Orne in 1873. Her youth was fraught with peril - the disease enteritis, having claimed the lives of her four siblings, was a grave early challenge which she surmounted. Her family was religious, practising fasts and festivals in accordance with the Christian calendar, and practised tenets of the Christian faith such as giving charity to the unfortunate. A religious young prodigy, Therese felt a calling to the Christian faith during her teenage years, journeying to Lisieux in Normandy to begin her life as a cloistered nun. She entered into the convent at the age of fifteen, and soon impressed her peers with her purity of devotion and a deep understanding of many matters of faith. She was well-read, having found and absorbed many of the Christian documents of the past such as the Imitation of Christ. (Cover image by Nheyob.)

Marie-Francoise Therese Martin, en religion s ur Therese de l'Enfant-Jesus et de la Sainte-Face, egalement connue sous les appellations sainte Therese de Lisieux, sainte Therese de l'Enfant-Jesus ou encore la petite Therese, etait une religieuse carmelite francaise nee a Alencon le 2 janvier 1873 et morte a Lisieux le 30 septembre 1897. A sa mort, Therese laissait trois manuscrits autobiographiques d'inegale longueur, composes a la demande de trois personnes differentes. Le premier (manuscrit A) est ecrit en obeissance a Mere Agnes de Jesus (sa s ur Pauline) en 1895 et 1896. Puis il est poursuivi a la fin de sa vie, de juin 1897 jusqu'a sa mort, a la demande de Mere Marie de Gonzague (manuscrit C). Le dernier est une lettre adressee a sa s ur Marie du Sacre-C ur, carmelite a Lisieux, a qui elle raconte les graces decisives de 1896 (manuscrit B). Ces manuscrits fondus en un tout, et fort remanies -par sa s ur ainee Pauline (Mere Agnes)- dans le style et la distribution des matieres, parurent sous le titre d'Histoire d'une Ame des 1898 1. Ce livre toucha des millions de lecteurs et fut traduit en trente-cinq langues.