Death Notice
It was with a lively feeling of sadness that we learned last Thursday evening of the death at the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel of a young person who gave to a life of prayer and sacrifice the most beautiful years of her youth. Mademoiselle Marie-Francoise-Therese Martin, renouncing the world at the age of fifteen years and consecrating herself to God, became Sister Therese of the Child Jesus. She disappears after ten years of an angelic life in the shadow of the cloister, and we have the sweetest confidence that the death that came to fetch her in the flower of her youth, in putting an end to her long and cruel sufferings, has already placed on her head the immortal crown that was the object of her continual desires here below.
The funeral will be celebrated Monday morning in the chapel of the Carmel.
Le Normand offers to the family of Sister Therese of the Child Jesus, to the Mother Prioress and the other nuns of Carmel the homage of its respectful condolences.
Translation © 2010 by Maureen O'Riordan. All rights reserved.