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Article: 'THERESE' COMPELLING LOOK AT PAINED AND PIOUS SAINT.(Show)(Movie review)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 19, 1987
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Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer
It's too bad the title "The Agony and the Ecstasy" has already been used for Michelangelo. It would fit perfectly with "Therese," a curious and quite compelling look at the painful, joyful cloistered life of Saint Theresa.
Viewed from an age when suffering in silence has long since declined as a virtue, Therese seems truly saintly. Therese Martin was virtually unknown at the time of her death of tuberculosis in 1897 at age 24 in a French Carmelite convent cut off from the outside world. However, her meticulous convent diary was published, and became very popular among Catholics. She was canonized a saint in 1925, and ...