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Therese at three and a half - July 1876
A letter from Mme Martin to her daughter Pauline dated July 16, 1876, informs us that three successive poses had to be taken on that occasion
because Therese moved quite a bit during the taking of the picture.
'Although she ordinarily had a happy expression on her face, she was pouting then because she was close to tears, and we had to keep encouraging her.'
Therese at eight with her sister Celine - 1881
Therese, shown here with a jumping rope in her hand, was eight,
while Celine was twelve.
Therese at thirteen - February 1886
Therese is thirteen years old in this picture. She has already been cured of the strange and crippling illness which struck her in 1883,
and at the end of this year she was to experience her 'Christmas conversion',
that instant maturity which marked the end of her childhood sensibility.
Therese at fifteen
Therese is photographed with her hair knotted on top of her head,
the coiffure she adopted for the first time to make herself appear older
when she visited Bishop Hugonin on October 31, 1887.
Although it might appear that the picture was taken at that time
Celine's notes inform us it was taken in April, 1888,
a few days before Therese's entrance into Carmel.
Therese as a novice - January 1889
Taken in January of 1889, some days after Therese's clothing
with the religious habit, which occurred on January 10th of that year.
Therese in meditation in the courtyard of Lourdes - 1894
The nuns are seated in the Lourdes grotto.
The grotto no longer exists in the Carmel today,
but it was near the site of the present chapel
where Therese's body is now kept.
Therese as Joan of Arc in prison
Taken between January 21, 1895, and the spring of that same year.
Therese as Joan of Arc during her vision of St Margaret
Taken between January 21, 1895, and the spring of that same year.
The community at recretion in the chestnut walk
Taken sometime after February 5, 1895,
the community is gathered in the walk of the Chestnut trees,
which have been recently pruned.
The majority of these trees are still standing,
including the third tree form the right on which the word MOTHER can be seen.
The hermitage of the Holy face is behind the trees on the left,
and the original cemetery of the convent is in the middle rear of the picture.
Therese at recreation
Therese appears a little more stout in this photograph,
which perhaps can be explained by the angle at which the picture was taken. However, Celine was very satisfied with this picture.
'You see her as she was', she said.
The community on the cloister porch
Taken in the cloister porch between February 5, 1895,
and the end of July in the same year.
The community at the wash - 1895
All of the nuns, with the exception of Sister Marie Emmanuel, who is standing at the extreme left, have removed the extra veil worn over their heads. They are wearing aprons, and they have rolled up their three sets of sleeves. During the actual washing at the convent, the nuns worked in relays, some doing the wash here in the laundry, while others took the clothes outside to thrash them with paddles like the one Therese holds in her hand. However, for this photograph they have all assembled in the laundry at the same time, which explains why they seem so crowded.
Therese standing in the cloister courtyard - March 17, 1896
At the Process for the Canonization, Celine testified : 'After I had photographed the novices, I also took her portrait. She wanted to hold in her hand a scroll on which had been written the words of our holy Mother Saint Teresa : 'I would give a thousand lives to save a single soul'. '
The community haying - July 1896
The community is haying in the meadow which stretches beside the chestnut walk. As is customary when they do heavy work, the nuns have pinned up
the outer fold of their habits. Therese moved, and her face is quite blurred. However, her picture is still very interesting, particularly the vigorous manner
in which she is holding the pitchfork.
Therese holding a rosary - July 1896
Therese had already been sick for several months. The picture was taken by Celine in the courtyard ouside the sacristy. But she was dissatisfied with the pose, as she wrote in her notes: 'Her character was strong and virile, but now she appeared timorous and fearful, and I was very much dissatisfied.'
Therese holding a lily - July 1896
The picture was taken in the same sacristy courtyard.
'I made her straighten up', Celine writes, 'and I asked her to face the camera
and put on the expression she had in the picture the photographer took
of the two of us when she was eight. After she complied with my instructions,
I snapped the picture, without paying any attention to the arrangement
of her habit. I was satisfied with this picture,
as far as we can be satisfied with a photograph.'
Therese as sacristan, with her sisters and cousin - November 1896
The photograph was taken in the sacristy courtyard. Therese held the office of sacristan until June, 1892, but she was reappointed for a short time after the community elections of March 21, 1896.
Therese with the holy pictures - June 7, 1897
The setting is again the sacristy courtyard. The two pictures Therese is holding are the Holy Face of Tours and the Infant Jesus, pictures which she kept in her breviary and which in some way summarize her spirituality. On June 3, a few days earlier, Therese had started the final section of her autobiography.
Since Therese's early death was now beyond doubt, her sisters wanted
this photograph, and the two following ones, as a final remembrance
of her appearance. The pictures were given to Mother Gonzague
for the feast day, June 21.
Therese lying ill in the cloister - August 30, 1899
This is the last photograph of the Saint, taken exactly one month before her death. She is arranged in the cloister walk on a long reclining chair.
Therese is wearing a simple night veil on her head, and over that
a cap of white wool. The two straps of the small night scapular
can be seen around her neck. Illness has made her face almost unrecognisable.
Therese in death in the infirmary
In her memoirs, Celine informs us that she took a photograph of Therese in the infirmary on October 1,1897, before the removal of the body.
While Celine admitted that the photograph captured her sister's 'heavenly smile', she did not, on the whole, like it because of the irregular play of lights and shadows.
- 소화데레사 어록 중에서
"만약 작은 꽃들이 모두가 다 장미가 되기를 원한다면,
자연은 그 봄단장을 잃어버릴 것이고,
들판은 다시는작은 꽃들로 단장되지 못하리라는 것을 깨달았습니다.
예수의 정원인 영혼의 세계도 이와 같지 않겠습니까.
그분은 큰 성인들을 창조하시고자 한 한편,
작은 성인들도 창조하셨습니다."
"오! 아닙니다. 우리들의 무능 속에서 오히려 타인들의업적을 바쳐야만 합니다.
거기에 성인들의 통공이 주는 이점이 있으며,
우리의 무능으로 인해서 우리는 결코괴로워해서 안 되며 다만 사랑에만 전념해야 합니다."
"성성(聖性)은 이러저러한 것을 실천하는 것이 아니라
주님의 손 안에서 작고 겸손한 어린이의 상태가 되게 하는 마음의 경향에 있으며,
또 우리의 약함을 인정하면서 아버지의 인자하심에
대담할 정정도로 신뢰를 두는 마음의 경향에 있습니다."
“하느님께서는 영혼들에게 모든 것을 동시에 보여 주시는것을 좋아하시지 않습니다.
항상 조금씩조금씩 빛을 주십니다.”
“우리가 고통을 당하는 순간, 그 유일한 순간들을 이용합시다.
매순간 순간만을 봅시다. 그것은 보물입니다.
한번의 사랑의 행위가 우리로 하여금 예수를 더 잘 알도록해 줄 것이며,
영원히 그분께로 다가가게 해 줄 것입니다.”
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