Miracle of sr St-Joseph, in team with Thérèse
Received in the mail in 1983
April 13, 1983
My mother
I see on an image of Saint Thérèse that I have, that people who receive graces through the intercession of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, are asked to communicate the story to the Carmelite Monastery of Lisieux, so I do not then resist entrusting you with what for us was also a very beautiful story.
My son-in-law, father of 3 children, was, like so many others, alas! threatened with unemployment. The factory where he worked having filed for bankruptcy, and like his fellow workers (900 people) he witnessed the dismantling and sale of the machines on which he had worked for 25 years. It was desolation. One evening when I was at their house, my son-in-law wanted to write to an important industry to ask for work. My daughter was concerned, knowing that he could not have a position in this coveted institution, but where it is so difficult to enter.
I go home, I don't live very far from my children, and I wanted to pray, then I started to read the Annals that I had received the same morning, it was those of January I believe, and what am I learning! That the first postulant of the Carmel of Lisieux, Sister Saint Joseph of Jesus, born Eugénie Lerebourg, was born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, but I am from Saint Méen-le-Grand. I cannot express what I felt while reading this, which I was doing at the very moment when my son-in-law was applying for a job. I had great confidence and joy. I couldn't stop myself from phoning my children, without giving them the reason. I told them that I would let them know when a favorable response was announced. But no response came either in January or in February, I did not speak to my children about it, but I was always certain that Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, and Sister Saint Joseph of Jesus whom I prayed to every day would answer me.
On March 19, the religious feast day of Sister Saint Joseph, our compatriot, my son-in-law received a letter from the house where he was applying for admission, to present himself the following Thursday for the medical visit and he was hired immediately. My children who have read the Annals are convinced, like me, that it is a miracle, due to our “little Carmelites”.
I no longer fail to pray to Sr Thérèse and Sr Joseph. I could never forget this grace and neither could my children.
Mrs L.
