Sainte-Thérèse of Lisieux, the little path to holiness (1/2) Virginie Girod tells you about the life of the Carmelite determined to become a Saint. Thérése was born in 1873 in Alençon, in Normandy.
She is the last of a family of 5 girls. When she fell ill, the Virgin Mary appeared to her in 1883. She decided to devote her life to God by joining Carmel, where two of her sisters were located.