the Carmel

Abridged life of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus

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This small booklet (12,5 X 7,5 cm) of 64 pages was distributed to the front in half a million copies during the First World War. Placed in pockets, it stopped bullets and served as a regular evening read-aloud in the trenches. Here is the 1914 edition.