Biography of st therese of lisieux
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Biography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Childhood in Alencon
Thérèse Martin was born on 2th January 1873 in Alençon. She is the youngest of a family of nine children, four of whom died at a young age.
Biography of st therese of lisieux
His parents, Louis and Zélie Martin, were husbands of great piety. She has four older sisters: Marie, Pauline, Léonie and Céline.
She is baptized the 4th January 1873 by Canon Dumaine in the church of Notre-Dame d'Alençon.
Le August 28, 1877, Zélie Martin dies from breast cancer.
Only four and a half years old, Thérèse was deeply affected by it. She then chose her big sister Pauline as “Little Mother”.
At Les Buissonnets in Lisieux
En November 1877, Louis Martin and his five daughters settled in Lisieux, in the house of bushes, in order to get closer toIsidore Guerin, brother of Zélie and substitute guardian of the Martin girls.
Isidore and his wife Céline are parents of two little girls: Jeanne and Marie.
Schoolgirl at the Abbey
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