Saint Therese of Lisieux: A Gateway

The Allied troops enter Lisieux in the summer of 1944.  At the top, the Basilica of St. Therese

With thanks to the late Fr. J. Linus Ryan of Ireland, I am happy to present this excellent brief account of the bombing of Lisieux, a precise narrative of what happened to the town and to the Carmelite nuns in the summer of 1944, mentioning the public promise made on July 20, 1944 by curates of the town's three churches to celebrate the feast of St. Therese every year by bringing her relics in procession from St. Pierre's Cathedral to the Basilica.  The article was translated by Teresa Geslin Sweeney from "Therese de Lisieux," the magazine published by the Shrine at Lisieux; it appeared in English on the Web site of the Irish National Office of St. Therese.