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Article: DESOLATION AND DOCTRINE IN THERESE OF LISIEUX.
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- Theological Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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THERESE MARTIN WAS BORN January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France. The year turned out to be one of deep desolation for devout Ultramontane Catholics such as her family. On January 1, 1874, a front-page editorial in the Ultramontane newspaper L'Univers opined: "There was a universal presentiment that the year 1873 would see something end and something new begin. But now there is nothing, neither life nor death. Humanity seems a void. Asphyxiated, cadavers slide to the bottom of a moral abyss. History offers few examples of this absolute infecundity. Odorless and silent pestilences infiltrate everywhere, killing everything, and nothingness seems to have conquered being.(1)
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