On this first writing-desk, which she used from April 9, 1888 through August 1894, Therese wrote the following documents which have survived: Letters 125 letters, LT ...
Sister Marie of the Angels. Click the image for her death notice (the story of her life) and her testimony about Therese on the Archives of the Lisieux Carmel Web site ...
To write, a Carmelite sat on a small bench in the cell and balanced a small wooden writing-case on her knees.
The nuns’ chief free time in which to write, except Sundays, was the “silence” (an hour of free time) from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Celine recounts the challenge this ...
During part of the year, it was dark at the hour of silence,and Therese had to write by the light of that little oil lamp. Writing by hand was not ...
On top of the often dark and cold cell; the little oil lamp with the wick she had to push up with a pin, and which for love of poverty she ...
Pauline had taught Therese to use handwriting slanted to the right, the kind of handwriting then taught in schools. Writing like this tired Therese's hand, and at Carmel she asked ...
Therese’s love of poverty led her to use pens and paper in a way that made writing difficult. Celine writes: For the writing of the ...
The ecritoire was one of the few places a Carmelite might, with permission, keep any personal property or letters. The circulaire for Sr. Marie of the Trinity, Therese’s novice, remarks ...
On this second ecritoire Therese wrote the documents that express her mature spirituality: Story of a Soul; her letters, including all the letters to her priest-brothers; 16 of her 21 ...
Visit " Therese's writing desk during her lifetime ."
Visit " The national schedule of the tour of the writing-desk " Dates are still being added, and the page will be updated. On this page you can also ...
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