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Canon Surmont, Vicar General, Westminster, 2nd November 1925. This edition has been re-typeset using the text of the 1952 edition originally published by Burns Oates Washbourne under the imprimatur of Edm. Those writings along with letters and poems were posthumously collected and comprise her autobiography, The Story of a Soul. This spiritual classic will speak gently to your heart. Sister Thrse wrote this autobiography out of obedience to Mother Agnes of Jesus (her religious superior who was also her sister, Pauline). This beautiful edition, which is printed in the beautiful style of all the TAN Books Catholic Classics Series, belongs on the shelf of every Catholic. The Story of a Soul, the autobiography of Saint Thrse of Lisieux, is a spiritual classic and is one of the most beautiful autobiographies ever written. No Catholic should be ignorant of the spiritual power of little way of St. The final chapter, written for her eldest sister Marie, is simply a childlike outpouring of her heart to Jesus Himself. The Story of a Soul continues to grow in popularity and millions of copies are distributed worldwide. Thérèse is extremely simple and spontaneous, having a charm that is hard to describe, especially when she rises to poetic heights. Men and women open the book, often quite casually, and are caught by the vivid clarity or simple profundity of some sentence in such a way that their lives are completely changed. The Story of a Soul possesses in some degree a characteristic common both to the Gospels and The Imitation of Christ.

Thérèse's teaching to the faithful for their imitation-Pius XI declared her the greatest saint of our age and John Paul II made her a Doctor of the Church. Almost every pope since its publication has proposed St. Today it ranks amongst the greatest Christian spiritual classics and it has been translated into practically every well-known language. Thérèse of Lisieux, was first published in 1899. The Story of a Soul, better known to the English public as T he Autobiography of St.

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