The parents of St. Therese will be beatified on October 19th, Mission Sunday, in Lisieux. They will be re-buried inside the Basilica, near their daughter. The announcement was made in Lisieux itself a few days ago, during ceremonies marking the couple's marriage 150 years ago. Therese and her sisters must be happy!
The cure of an Italian baby with malformed lungs has been accepted as miraculous and the child, now six years old, will be present at the ceremony.

Fianlly! It's so exciting to see St. Therese's parents beatified. I have a devotion to St. Therese's sister, Leonie, or Sr. Francois Therese. She has an amazing story.

HALLELUJAH!!!!!! I been waiting for that for years!!!!

Same here--they lived most admirable lives. As regards Leonie, she would make a wonderful patron saint of children with learning/behavior disorders. Just my opinion .

Wow, great! This is wonderful!

Oh I agree ! I also think she would make a great patron saint of those who are struggling with their vocations!

This is AWESOME!!!! I'm currently reading The Story of a Soul, and simply based on this, St. Therese's parents are AMAZING!

Leonie was really unfortunate. She was the black sheep in a family of very white sheep. She wasn't even as pretty as the others--all of the other girls were very pretty, Therese the prettiest and the baby. Leonie was the middle of the pack, the so-called 'middle child'. She had eczema and at some point had measles, and was very ill. Measles is notorious for attacking the brain, producing encephalitis, seizures, blindness and brain damage. I think that the measles didn't help Leonie, and that she may have had some mild brain damage as a result, which made it very hard for her to adhere to religious life.

God doesn't look at the outside shell and what humans revere as "beauty". It's very uncharitable and unkind to write about someone's appearance - living or dead. God looks at the beauty of the soul. He doesn't love someone less because they are cover model beautiful or considered by mankind's shallowness - ugly or unattractive.

Leonie had a difficult life and with God's grace and love and prayers from St. Therese and her sisters, settled into her Visitation and persevered wonderfully. As for her physical conditions, it was something God gave her to suffer and she suffered it well for souls. All the books and stories I've read on Leonie (Sr. Francoise-Therese), she die in the odor of sanctity and became a saint in her own right. The recorded comments from the novices and professed sisters of her convent do her wonderful justice and struck them as her being a living saint.

Being a saint in the eyes of God is more important than in the eyes of men. All the letters to St. Therese and her sisters in Carmel and interaction with her Visitation sisters show a very lucid, intelligent and holy mind, heart and soul. She expresses herself well on the love of God, the Sacred Heart, her vocation, suffering, etc. It wouldn't be the first time God permitted or ordained an illness to someone but that person didn't have all the ramifications of it - meaning there doesn't seem to be any accounts of Sr. Francoise-Therese having or showing signs of brain damage and any strange behavior as she got older - which I haven't read any accounts of - probably would have been mental problems associated with old age - senile dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.

Besides St. Therese and others, I too have a devotion to Sr. Francoise-Therese.

It was after reading "A difficult life" by Marie Baudouin-Croix that I have not givin up my discernment with the cloister. Even with all my faults, I firmly belive I am being called to the cloister.

It was that book that sparked my devotion to Leonie!