Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

For the first time the authorized edition of this great modern spiritual classic, as St. Therese herself wrote it, is being made available in English. This new publication is an exact rendition of the saint's words and ideas, masterfully translated by Monsignor Ronald Knox from the unedited manuscripts, a facsimile edition of which recently appeared in France. Although the spiritual autobiography of St. Therese has gone through many editions, all of them have been based on the version edited by Therese's sister, Mother Agnes of Jesus, after the saint's death. In the last years of her life Therese had written three autobiographical manuscripts which she entrusted to Mother Agnes with instructions to change, add, or delete as she saw fit. In the words of Father Francois de Sainte-Marie, the Carmelite charged with preparing the facsimile edition for publication, Mother Agnes, for...

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