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Saint Therese of Lisieux
Written by Kathryn Harrison
Narrated by Kate Reading
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St. Therese of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became - through her posthumously published autobiography - one of the world's most influential religious figures. No less a luminary than Andre Gide modeled one of his characters after her in his novel STRAIT IS THE GATE. Originally the pampered daughter of successful and highly religious tradespeople, Therese appealed personally to the Pope to let her enter the convent at the age of fifteen. There, Therese embraced sacrifice and self-renunciation in a single-minded pursuit of the "nothingness" she felt would bring her closer to God. Her ascetic practices enabled her to undergo even the scourge of tuberculosis, which only deepened her spiritual intensity even as it would take her life.
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Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels ‘The Binding Chair’, ‘Exposure’, ‘A Thousand Orange Trees’ and ‘Envy’, as well as two volumes of memoirs, ‘The Kiss’ and ‘Seeking Rapture’, all available from Fourth Estate. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting biography. My feeling was that Harrison doesn't believe it possible that Therese was a "saint" yet wanted to. She kept tring to make the case that Therese had been abandoned as an infant (to a wet nurse, briefly), then her mother died at a young age, then her sisters entered the Carmel. It seemed more probably to me that Theres was raised to be a saint, had little choice but to enter the convent. Both her parents had wanted to be "Religious," but were not accepted. All of their surviving offspring became nuns except one daughter who I couldn't keep track of: she entered so many different convents I'm surprised any would take her. I think she ended up in Canada in a teaching order or teaching position. And, Therese, of course, never took her final vows. One of the down-sides of listening to tapes on the iPod is that it is difficult and frustrating to back up just a bit. The indexing is not done well. Now I should read Therese's Story of a Soul.