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She was born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, January 2, 1873, in Alençon, France. At the age of fourteen, Thérèse had such an ardent desire to enter the convent that, on a pilgrimage to Rome with her father, she boldly asked Pope Leo XIII during a public audience for his permission to enter the Carmel at age fifteen. He responded that she would enter “if God wills it.” The next year her request was granted by the bishop of Bayeux, and on April 9, 1888, she entered the Carmel at Lisieux where she took the name Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.
Nació como Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, el 2 de enero de 1873, en Alenzón (Francia). A los catorce años de edad Teresa tenía un deseo tan ardiente de entrar en el convento que, en un peregrinaje a Roma con su padre, atrevidamente pidió permiso al papa León xiii, durante una audiencia pública, para poder entrar en el Carmelo a los quince años de edad. Él respondió que entraría «si Dios lo quiere». Al año siguiente su solicitud fue concedida por el obispo de Bayeux y el 9 de abril de 1888, entró en el Carmelo de Lisieux, donde asumió el nombre de hermana Teresa del Niño Jesús y la Santa Faz.


She became acting mistress of novices in 1893 and considered it her mission to teach souls her “little way.” Her path was a path of love, for, she wrote, “it is only love which makes us acceptable to God.” Her favorite works were those of [[Saint John of the Cross]], the Gospels and ''The Imitation of Christ''. She desired only “to make God loved as I love Him, to teach souls my little way”—the way of “spiritual childhood, the way of trust and absolute surrender.”
She became acting mistress of novices in 1893 and considered it her mission to teach souls her “little way.” Her path was a path of love, for, she wrote, “it is only love which makes us acceptable to God.” Her favorite works were those of [[Saint John of the Cross]], the Gospels and ''The Imitation of Christ''. She desired only “to make God loved as I love Him, to teach souls my little way”—the way of “spiritual childhood, the way of trust and absolute surrender.”