De Sainte Thérèse, ne retenir que cela..... serait déjà beaucoup, tellement essentiel..... "Je suis trop petite pour monter la rude échelle de la perfection. Alors je me suis dit : le Bon Dieu ne saurait inspirer des désirs irréalisables… je veux chercher un petit moyen bien droit, bien court, un petit chemin tout nouveau… Et j’ai compris que l’amour seul faisait agir les membres de l’Église…"
The madness was effectively concealed in the father's canonization process. He threatened a man with a gun and was therefore sent to a psychiatric ward. The father was already so “incapable” that after the mother's death, custody of the girls went to the uncle.
I believe it. When reading her last words I was struck with the invasive and tortuous procedures the Doctors were performing on Little Therese! However even if she knew about them she offered them up, under obedience to God's Holy Will which she always conformed herself to in the slightest degree! Hence she is truly a martyr too! Saint Therese, pray for us! God bless you!
She interceded for me in a powerful way when her relics were visiting Westminster cathedral.. Later on of course, I ended up a postulant in a Carmel in France. Sure it is related.