Photos of those who knew Therese > Photo Album of those who knew St. Therese at Lisieux > Most Reverend Flavien Hugonin, Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux

Monseigneur Hugonin was born in 1823 and died in 1898.  He was bishop of the diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux from 1866 through 1898.  He confirmed Therese in 1884, received her on October 31, 1887 when she asked permission to become a Carmelite, authorized the prioress of Carmel to receive the postulant, and presided at Therese's reception of the Habit on January 10, 1889.  In "Story of a Soul" Therese speaks of how kind he was to her on his visits to Carmel.  He always spoke of how, in their first interview in 1887, she had put her hair up to look older.