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A priest, writing in a 1958 issue of the Catholic Herald, recounts the surprising history behind St. Thérèse’s autobiography, Story of a Soul.
It is well-known that St. Thérèse asked her religious superior to make whatever changes and editorial corrections she thought necessary to her autobiography.
While her sister, Mother Agnes, certainly had the noblest of intentions in her editorial work (and her stylistic revisions likely contributed to the widespread success of the book), many have found that these revisions concealed many important facets of the saint’s life through omission and simplification. Read More
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