Saint Therese of Lisieux by Kathryn Harrison

Author:Kathryn Harrison [Harrison, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101651261
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2003-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

On May 10, 1892, Louis Martin left the Bon Sauveur mental asylum under the care of his brother-in-law Isidore Guérin. According to Madame Guérin, his morale was as good as it could be under the circumstances, but his limbs were too weak to support him. In his wheelchair, he “cried all the time,” so overwhelmed was he by relief to be among family, reunited with two of his daughters, Céline and Léonie, under the Guérins’ roof. He depended on a manservant to feed him, and when it was necessary to move him from chair to bed, “he put his arms around the servant’s neck, who then carried him.”

In his docility, his inclination to weep, Louis Martin was like a child, and yet Céline knew that “he understood and felt what children do not understand and feel.” On May 12, the Guérins took him to Carmel to visit Pauline, Marie, and Thérèse, who tried not to cry at so diminished a father. His speech was limited, but when they said, “Au revoir,” see you again, he pointed upward and replied, “Au del,” in heaven.

It would be their last visit with him, the only one in four years.

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