Photos of those who knew Therese > Photo Album of those who knew St. Therese at Lisieux > Pope Leo XIII, of whom Therese begged permission to enter Carmel at 15

Pope Leo XIII received Therese and the other pilgrims from her diocese on November 20, 1887.   Therese begged for permission to enter and had to be carried away from the Pope's feet by the guards.  Therese wrote to Celine "The good Pope is so old, one would think he is dead," but, despite his fragile health, when Therese died in 1897, he was still living in Rome.