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As Céline Martin, one of Therese's sisters who also entered the Carmel of Lisieux as Sister Genevieve, was an artist, she painted several portraits of her sister to help spread her devotion. Céline's portraits of Therese were widely reproduced in devotional images and objects, such as prayer cards.
Marie-Pauline Martin, also known as Sister Agnes of Jesus OCD (7 September 1861 – 28 July 1951) was a French Discalced Carmelite and Catholic prioress. She was notably an older sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux .
Léonie Martin, also known as Sister Françoise-Thérèse, VHM (3 June 1863 – 17 June 1941) was a French Catholic nun who led a cloistered life as a member of the Visitation Sisters. She was the daughter of Saints Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin and an elder sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. She is sometimes dubbed Saint ...
Maria Crocifissa Curcio, CMST (born Rosa Curcio; 30 January 1877 – 4 July 1957) was an Italian Catholic religious sister who established the congregation of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. Her sole aim was "to bring souls to God" while attempting to emulate the example of Thérèse of Lisieux. Curcio ...
Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925, and her elder sister Léonie Martin, a Visitation Sister declared a Servant of God in 2015.
— Letter of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux to Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart C'est la confiance ("It is confidence") is the seventh apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis , on the topic of "confidence in the merciful love of God ".
In the summer of 1944, the townspeople who remained in Lisieux took refuge in the basilica's crypt. The Carmelites of Lisieux, including Saint Thérèse's two surviving sisters, lived in the basilica's crypt that summer. Built in 2000, the worship chapel is a place for silent prayer and can be entered through the crypt.
Thérèse Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle Maria Teresa of St. Joseph (1855–1938), founder of the Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus Therese of Lisieux (1873–1897), or Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, French Discalced Carmelite nun, and Doctor of the Church