St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Charles Anne, a 23-year-old seminarian from Lisieux, took to his bed after a haemorrhage on 23 August 1906. His doctor, Francis La Néele, found cavities in the lungs and the tubercle bacillus in the sputum, and death was expected within days. A first novena failed. He made a second to Thérèse alone, and Taylor gives his prayer: "I did not come here to die! I came to work for God! You must cure me!" Laveille and Taylor describe an instant recovery. The Carmel's record shows a course over days, with the fever normal from 10 September and only a scar found about 18 September. Two doctors found him in excellent health in August 1917, and he later served as a priest. The three experts of the Congregation judged the lesion organic and not restorable by nature.

Sister Louise, a teacher of the Daughters of the Cross at Ustaritz, had a bleeding stomach ulcer from 1913 and received the last sacraments in 1915. In early September 1916 another sister persuaded her to pray to Thérèse again. On the night of 10 September she reported that Thérèse said, "Be generous; you will soon be cured; I promise it," and the next morning rose petals lay round her bed. After a violent attack on 21 September she fell asleep, and she woke on the 22nd cured and asked to go to Mass. Taylor gives 25 September; Laveille and the Carmel give 22 September. The Church's experts found a most grave haemorrhagic ulcer of the stomach.

Maria Pellemans, a young Belgian woman, had pulmonary tuberculosis by October 1909, followed by tubercular enteritis. She was treated at home and at the La Hulpe sanatorium, and a pilgrimage to Lourdes in August 1920 brought no change. In March 1923 she came with a pilgrimage to the Lisieux Carmel. Praying at the tomb, she reported that she at once recovered perfect health. Taylor puts this on 24 March, the day after her arrival. Three doctors appointed by the Congregation gave favourable opinions, and the diagnosis was chronic tuberculosis of the lungs and intestines.

Sister Gabriella Trimusi, of the Poor Daughters of the Sacred Hearts at Parma, felt pain in her left knee from 1913. Heliotherapy, baths and injections did not help, and her spine was affected four years later; an X-ray showed periostitis of the head of the tibia. On 13 June 1923 she began a novena to Blessed Thérèse. On its last day, after walking painfully to the Carmelite church, she knelt without pain, and that evening she cried "Sanata sum!" (I am healed). The Congregation's diagnosis was chronic tubercular arthrosynovitis of the knee and chronic spondylitis of the spine. The bull gives no day for the cure.

Mrs Dorans, a widow with twelve children, had an abdominal tumour judged inoperable at the Western Infirmary in spring 1909. She could keep no food for ten weeks. She began a novena to the Little Flower on 22 August. About 5.30 on the morning of 27 August she reported a gentle pressure on her shoulders and a warm breath, and she felt no pain. A lump smaller than a marble remained and was gone the next day. Her Protestant doctor is quoted as saying that if the cure lasted it was nothing short of a miracle, and an X-ray in July 1910 was normal. Doctors for the Lisieux tribunal examined her in 1911 and found the abdomen normal. Taylor calls it the best-proven of the graces, and the diagnosis is given as "neoplasm" in some sources and "cancerous tumour" in others.

The Carmel of Gallipoli was in debt and sometimes went without dinner. After a triduum to the Trinity through Thérèse, the prioress, Mother Maria Carmela, reported that near dawn on 16 January 1910 she felt a hand on her bedclothes and a voice promised money for the debt. A young Carmelite shining with light led her to the parlour, said "I am the Servant of God, Sœur Thérèse of Lisieux," and added "my way is sure." In a drawer of the accounts desk the prioress found ten 50-franc notes of the Bank of Naples. Some sources give the sum in lire or livres. The prioress told Bishops Müller and Giannattasio, and the inquiry was reported to Rome. The prioress had been ill with pleurisy, and Giannattasio denied any nervous illness before or after.

After the first gift, the Gallipoli accounts showed unexplained surpluses at each month-end, from 25 lire in January onward. In May the prioress reported that Thérèse appeared and said a 50-franc note was in the box, and two sisters found three notes where there had been two. On the night of 15 to 16 July she promised 100 lire, and a 5-lire note was found at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. On 6 August a 100-lire note, which the bishop had said he had lost from his accounts, was found and returned to him. After that alms came from outside. Bishop Müller checked the accounts carefully and found the origin of the sums inexplicable.

On 5 September 1910, the eve of the first exhumation, the prioress of Gallipoli reported that Thérèse appeared and said that only her bones would be found. She is said to have spoken of her relics as powerful weapons against the devil and of hidden crosses she had borne on earth. The prioress knew nothing of the exhumation. The account comes from Taylor, who drew on letters to the Carmel, and the case belongs to the same inquiry as the Gallipoli money.

Bishop Nicola Giannattasio of Nardò sealed 300 lire inside a larger envelope, with a note, "My Way is a Sure one," dated 16 January 1910, to be opened at Gallipoli on 16 January 1911. The nuns had been making a novena for 300 lire to decorate the chapel. He reported that at the grille he saw the seal intact, with the gum folds as he had made them. Inside he found two 100-lire and two 50-lire notes, and one note smelled lightly of roses. He swore to this at the Ordinary Process and was moved to tears. The case belongs to the Church's inquiry at Gallipoli, and it is not an approved miracle.

Mme Héloïse Debossu had a fibrous tumour for about ten years and refused an operation. She was bedridden from January 1901 and had peritonitis in September, and the doctors gave her up. Her priest, Abbé Petit, sent a lock of Thérèse's hair and asked the Carmel for a novena. On its last day she walked to church for Communion, and her health and weight returned. Taylor counts it among the first hundreds of cures reported by lay people.

Mme Jouanne, a gardener's wife and mother of two, had appendicitis with general peritonitis in January 1903. A Paris surgeon opened the abdomen, found an abscess and diffuse pus, closed it, and gave her hours to live. The curé placed under her bolster a sachet of rose petals that Thérèse had used to caress her crucifix. The report says the illness stopped that day, she was out of danger on the third day, and she was seen in good health in 1907.

Marthe Bourgon had appendicitis diagnosed late, and her operation was cut short because of gangrene. A sinus to the intestine formed, and she was dying. She received a lock of Thérèse's hair and made a novena. Two days later the sinus closed, and the chief surgeon is quoted as saying, "This cure is a phenomenon."

Brother Ignatius Boron, a Jesuit lay brother at Cracow, had liver stones from Christmas 1905. Two professors called the illness incurable, and the surgeon said an operation was necessary. A novena was made through Thérèse, with a crisis on the second day. He was reported cured on 20 March 1906, and Fr Casimir Konopka reported it on 19 May.

Sister Joséphine, a 41-year-old lay sister, developed double lobar pneumonia after influenza on 18 January 1907. Her temperature reached 43 degrees, her breathing became Cheyne-Stokes, her pulse passed 150, and she passed almost no urine. The prioress, woken at 2 a.m., found her black and glazed. The sister refused the prayers for the dying, said the Creed, and felt "as if touched." The crisis passed, and she said she had not prayed for a cure and had not wanted one.

Louis Legot, aged five, had meningitis in March 1908 and lay delirious and speechless for hours. The doctor declared it incurable. His mother asked, as a sign, that he would ask for a drink when she came home from Mass. He did, and he recovered. Abbé Lamy reported it on 16 April 1909, and Maupas repeated Lamy's account at the Ordinary Process.

Sister Sainte-Foy (Louise Chincholle) had six years of weakness, sixteen months of total loss of voice, and blood-spitting that raised fear of tubercular laryngitis. She began a novena to the Holy Face through Thérèse on 26 April 1908. On the second day she hummed two lines of "Vivre d'amour," and on the fourth day she was cured. The doctor's certificate of 27 July 1908 records signs of "neuropathy," and the source itself notes this as a natural explanation.

Reine Fauquet, aged four and a half, had phlyctenular keratitis from January 1906, and three doctors called her eyes hopeless. Her mother carried her to Thérèse's grave, because "Reine" was the name Louis Martin used for his daughter. On 26 May 1908, after a crisis, the child said she no longer needed her glasses. She told those around her that she had seen her "little Teresa," veiled and bright, who took her hand. Laveille and Taylor present it as an instant cure of a blind child. The source notes that keratitis tends to relapse and leave scars, and the certificate says she was cured completely.

Sister Marie-Michel of the Blessed Sacrament was diagnosed with tuberculosis on 19 April 1908 by Dr Joseph Marquis, who gave her two years at most. She made novenas ending on 30 September. She was certified well on 15 November 1908, although she had received the usual treatment. The cure was re-attested in March 1910.

Marguerite Chabaud, a 24-year-old nurse, had a stomach ulcer with vomiting of blood and relapsed on 8 February 1909. She was fed artificially, and a sachet with wool from Thérèse's pillow was laid on her. At the third Hail Mary after Mass on 21 February she felt a hand placed on the painful place. She then drank milk and ate chocolate and bread. Dr Tison confirmed the cure on 18 May 1909 and noted no nervous history.

Sister Mary of Calvary, aged 66, had pneumonia with liver and kidney disease and received Viaticum on 16 March 1909. She wanted to die, and she heard a voice telling her to abandon herself. A novena followed, with a suffocation crisis on 23 March. At 3.30 on the morning of 24 March she felt comfort, got up, and knelt half an hour at Communion. Dr Fernandez certified the cure on 31 July 1909, and Fr Élie cited the printed report at the Ordinary Process.

Brother Mary-Paul (Philippe Tobzane), a Trappist lay brother, was thought to have a stomach ulcer and was given morphine and nutrient enemas. On 4 May 1909 he drank water with particles of a relic of Thérèse. He walked and ate eggs, potatoes, raisins and wine. Dr Alexandro Ubach attested the cure on 15 June 1909.

Sister Mary of the Heart of Jesus, aged 31, had typhoid or cerebro-spinal meningitis from December 1908, with phlebitis of both legs and paresis. The infirmarian held out Thérèse's picture and stepped back, saying "come and fetch the picture," and the sister walked. Dr Pilveu, writing on 28 July 1909, could not explain it, and slight swelling remained. The diagnosis is uncertain because Quimper had no laboratory.

Adrien Henri had a stomach illness for twenty years that grew worse in July 1909. He asked to sleep until 5 a.m., and he did. His appetite returned. Two weeks later he walked 40 kilometres in a day.

Sister Marie-Bénigne Martin, a lay sister, had a stomach ulcer from December 1908 and vomited blood. On 2 July 1909, the last day of a novena, Léonie Martin (Sister Françoise-Thérèse) gave her water with a rose petal that Thérèse had used on her crucifix. The pain ended and she drank a litre of milk. The next day she ate an omelette, peas and salad, and the doctor's certificate is dated 29 July 1909.

On 30 July 1909 Mary Antes was knocked down and trampled by a frightened horse in a New York street. Her ribs were broken and driven into the lung, her head bled, and the ambulance doctor gave her one chance in a thousand. A novena began on 3 August and a relic was applied. She mended and was out of danger on its last day. Her sister, a Dominican nun at Brooklyn, reported it on 12 August 1909.

A five-year-old boy had peritonitis after measles from 2 August 1909, and a specialist called it hopeless. The Carmel's prioress advised a novena. The father's letter of 2 November 1909 says the boy was cured on the eighth day.

A woman five months pregnant was struck by her two-year-old child and feared a miscarriage or a deformity. A piece of Thérèse's clothing was applied, and the pains stopped. A healthy girl was born on 13 October 1909 and named Teresa of the Child Jesus. The chaplain reported it on 18 October 1909.

Henriette Luchini, aged eleven, had enteritis for two years. Relics sent to the Piacenza Carmel were misdelivered to another convent and given to the family, and a novena followed. A letter of 25 September 1909 reports that she was cured. The parcel's loss on the way was described as having "given rise to a fine miracle."

At Ambatolampy a woman who had been unable to move for ten years walked after novenas and was baptised Mary Teresa. A Malagasy mother said that "the beautiful lady," meaning Thérèse's picture, came in the night in a white robe and cured her dying baby. Sister Berchmans reported both accounts on 19 December 1909.

Brother Paul, a Trappist of Rogersville, was reported cured suddenly of a serious knee wound after an apparition of the Servant of God. Dr Bourret of Rogersville attested on 22 April 1910 that the healing of such a wound was so quick that he felt bound to ascribe it to a cause "quite supernatural." Mère Agnès lists it as item 6 of her summary.

Abbé Weber, a priest aged about 75, had a beginning cataract confirmed in Paris in 1900, and by 1909 an optician called the right eye "completely extinguished." The exiled Carmel of Bordeaux at Zarautz made novenas to Thérèse without telling him. After the second novena, with a picture-relic laid on his eyes each evening, he reported that he could read the small print of his breviary and recognise people at over a hundred paces. During the third he saw bee eggs in a queen cell with the naked eye. He gave sworn testimony at the Ordinary Process on 22 and 23 March 1911, and Dr Baradat wrote on 7 September 1910.

Ferdinand Aubry, aged 60, lived at the home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Lisieux and had a gangrenous ulcer of the tongue that was feared to be cancer. On 28 September 1910 he swallowed a rose petal from Thérèse's deathbed. On 2 October he said he was cured, and the missing part of the tongue is said to have grown back in three weeks. A photograph is attached to the doctor's certificate. He died peacefully on 18 December 1910. The sources differ on whether it was cancer or a gangrenous ulcer.

Sister Mary-Dominic of St-Gildas-des-Bois, aged 52, had a fibroid in the left side of the abdomen "the size of a newborn's head." Three doctors advised an operation. After nine novenas she woke on 3 October 1910 lying on her left side with no swelling. Dr H. found no tumour and no scar.

Abbé Jules Rossignol, about 76, had taught theology at the Luçon seminary and lived at a retired priests' house at Beaupréau. For over forty years he had been secretly afraid of God's judgment. On the morning of 16 January 1911 he reported that he saw "little Sister Thérèse" at his bedside, smiling, and she made him understand that she was taking care of his affair. "It is not a dream, I was fully awake," he said. His fear gave way to joy, and he died almost suddenly on 18 January, with no sign of fear. He had a chronic intestinal disorder, but nothing foretold his death.

Clémentine Derenne, aged 17, had albuminuria threatening consumption, then cerebral uraemia, and on 1 February 1911 the doctor said meningitis had set in. On 2 February she was given wool from Thérèse's pillow and could read its tiny print. She reported a young nun who said "You will be cured" and a perfume, and by 6 p.m. Dr Pivert found no trace of lung trouble or meningitis. A third visit on 4 February spoke of personal matters. Monsignor de Teil made an inquiry and confirmed the facts.

Alexander Grant, a United Free Church minister, read the English Story of a Soul and, ill with influenza late in 1909, felt a sense that Thérèse was in the room. He reported hearing "choose my little way" and later "Why do you ask me to pray for you and ignore the Blessed Virgin?" At the end of March 1911, during a novena in a convent chapel, he felt Christ present in the tabernacle. He was received into the Church on 20 April 1911. This is a conversion, not a healing, and he testified at both processes.

Mlle de Leusse was reported cured suddenly of sciatica, eczema and phlebitis on 29 April 1911. Dr Chaix of Bourgoin certified on 6 May 1911 and stated only the cure. She later came to Lisieux on a pilgrimage of thanks.

Mme Pailliés was reported cured suddenly of cancer of the oesophagus in June 1911. Dr Lemosy d'Orel of Chalabre declared that the "incurable" cancer had completely disappeared.

Mlle Parent was reported cured suddenly of an internal illness on 6 June 1911. Dr Deslauries of Montréal wrote on 28 June 1912 that he recognised in the cure a supernatural intervention.

Francisco Morfin of Guadalajara, Mexico, was reported cured of a burn to the eyes in November 1911. Dr Enrique Avalos declared on 10 November 1911 that it was a miraculous cure.

Mother Marie-Cécile of the Servants of the Poor was reported cured suddenly in January 1912 of liver and stomach disease complicated by enteritis. Dr Quintard of Angers recognised the cure after calling the illness extremely serious.

Catherine Macaluso of Palermo was reported cured suddenly of exophthalmic goitre in January 1912. Dr Monori Patti wrote on 27 February 1912 that only a miracle could have accomplished this.

Mlle Bigot of Domfront, in Orne, was reported cured of Addison's disease, described as tuberculosis of the adrenal glands, on 14 February 1912. Dr Vézard wrote on 18 May 1913 that he could not explain the cure scientifically and found it absolutely extraordinary. She later came to Lisieux on a pilgrimage of thanks.

Mme Langlois of Levallois-Perret was reported cured of mastoiditis in May 1912. Dr Dumont wrote on 21 November 1912 that it was very extraordinary and that only surgery could have saved her, and Dr Jacob wrote that the cure came spontaneously and without any need to operate. A representative of the Paris archdiocese legalised the report. She later came to Lisieux on a pilgrimage of thanks.

Mlle Blachère of La Prade was reported cured suddenly after a novena in June 1912. Her illness was chronic appendicitis with muscular atrophy, and Dr Lenail declared on 10 January 1913 that the cure was miraculous and sudden.

Marie Bidaux of Croix, in the Territoire de Belfort, was reported cured suddenly of acute peritonitis on 11 June 1912. A medical certificate of 24 August 1912 attests a complete cure.

Aline Poirson of Anrosey had been ill since she was twenty and could not eat meat or bread for nineteen years. She was bedridden for five and a half years with a swollen liver and spleen, kept alive by injections. A relic arrived on 15 June 1912 and a novena began on 19 June. At 2 a.m. on 1 July she felt well and reported hearing "Get up; you are cured." She walked to Mass at 5.30 and ate meat that day. Dr Vauthrin said the cure came without any action of medical art, and Dr Malingre called it absolutely miraculous.

M. Charpentier of Saint-Jean-de-Boisseau was reported cured in August 1912 of a cancer of the lower lip, described as an epithelioma. Dr Provost of Le Pellerin attested it.

Sister Dorothée Bertrand was reported cured suddenly in September 1912 of second-degree pulmonary tuberculosis. Dr Essély of Beirut, examining again on 30 March 1914, found the cure complete.

M. Chapuis of Paris was reported cured suddenly on 23 September 1912, after a supernatural manifestation, of a varicose ulcer of the left leg of 37 years' standing. The doctor of the Debrousse hospital gave an attestation on the day of the cure, which Monsignor de Teil holds.

Mme Rancoule of Carcassonne was reported cured, so to speak suddenly, of a varicose wound tending to ulcer in October 1912. Two certificates, from Drs Combéléran and Paul Vidal, recognise the illness and the cure.

Agatina Arcese of Ceprano, in Italy, was reported cured suddenly of double pneumonia in November 1912 after an apparition of Sister Thérèse. Dr Figoli saw the complete cure.

Julienne Fouilloul of Hautes-Foletière, in Orne, was reported cured on the last day of a novena in November 1912, and an apparition of Sister Thérèse followed the cure. Her illness was tuberculous peritonitis. Dr Lebossé of Flers confirmed her desperate state and the cure on 1 December 1912.

Mme Enguchard of Équeurdreville was reported cured of paraplegia, rapidly and almost instantly, on 2 December 1912. Dr Hussenstein of Cherbourg wrote on 23 January 1913 that it was a rapid phenomenon that could not be put down to the treatment, which had failed until then. Mère Agnès notes a great echo in the region and newspaper reports.

Sister Hélène de Jésus of the Carmel of Zaragoza had rheumatic arthritis of the right knee with swelling. She was reported cured in four days in early 1913. Dr Burbano wrote on 22 February 1914 that he considered so rapid a cure surprising and prodigious.

Louis Auguste, a child of Paris, had stubborn eczema for more than six years. He was reported cured after a supernatural manifestation on 24 January 1913. Dr de Backer wrote that after six years of failed treatment it was simpler to admit a supernatural intervention than to invoke a therapeutic emotion from the child's blind faith.

Germaine Roullot of Langres was reported cured suddenly on 13 April 1913 of caries of the foot. Dr Brocard attested the sudden cure on 21 April 1913. Mère Agnès notes a very great echo.

Miss Carrigan of Dublin was reported cured suddenly of pulmonary tuberculosis on 7 May 1913, after an apparition of Sister Thérèse. Dr W. N. O'Donnell wrote on 24 September 1913 that after long experience of hospitals and sanatoriums he had never seen a sudden cure so marvellous.

Mme Sirven de Haro of Havana had a cancer of the face spreading toward the right eye and had suffered almost four years. She called on Sister Thérèse and was reported completely cured in July 1913. Her husband, Dr José Manuel de Haro, wrote on 27 August 1913.

Mme Muzard of Santenay-les-Bains was reported cured suddenly on 15 July 1913 after an apparition of Sister Thérèse. Her illness was a stomach ulcer, and Dr Missery of Chagny attested the complete cure on 11 December 1913.

On 9 September 1913 the mother of Anne-Marie Henry left the child alone one morning, and the child set fire to the bed she lay in while playing. Her mother found her unhurt in the middle of the flames. The mother had entrusted her to Sister Thérèse, and the child invoked her every day. There was no illness, and Monsignor de Teil made an inquiry and gathered testimonies.

Mme Duval of Le Havre was reported cured suddenly on 30 September 1913, the anniversary of Thérèse's death, after invoking her. Her illness was phlebitis. Dr Louis Marlou wrote on 3 October 1913 that she began to walk without pain that day and that he considered the cure definitive.

Mme Faber of Prague was reported cured suddenly on 6 December 1913 of stomach ulcers, with a manifestation of the Servant of God. The certificate of Dr Daneck, written in Czech, says she is perfectly cured.

Mme Barthélemy of Laval, in Isère, was reported cured suddenly on 23 December 1913 of broncho-pneumonia and peritonitis. Dr Serrus said the prognosis had been very dark and declared her state perfect on 2 March 1914.

Marie Thédenat of Minié was reported cured suddenly on 30 January 1914 of infectious influenza. Dr Sinège wrote on 31 May 1914 that the prognosis was grave and that the fever went in a single night, between the fifth and sixth day.

Georgette Toutain, a child of Pin in Eure, had broncho-pneumonia in both lungs and was reported cured in February 1914. Dr Bernard of Cormeilles wrote on 24 April 1914 that the lesions disappeared without return in 24 hours. He called it extraordinary and unforeseeable, and he had thought one need only wait for the child's death.

Jean Hervy of Le Pouliguen had tuberculous meningitis. He was reported cured suddenly on 22 February 1914, while a Mass for Sister Thérèse's beatification, offered for his cure, was beginning. Dr Légier gave a certificate on 11 March 1914.

Philomène Le Gouez of Lambezellec had a tuberculous ulceration of the right thigh. It healed in a month in March 1914, and the doctor noted that this coincided with a reading of Histoire d'une âme that greatly edified her. Dr Hérébel wrote on 28 May 1914 that he was surprised before he knew of any supernatural claim. He concluded that natural healing was possible but that the speed was extraordinary.

Sister Marie-Madeleine de Pazzi of the Carmel of Vienna was reported cured suddenly of appendicitis on 19 March 1914. Dr Vojesik certified on 28 April 1914 that an operation had been urgent and indispensable and that she was cured without it.

Mme Gestas of Anan, in Haute-Garonne, was reported cured suddenly on 30 April 1914, when her last breath was expected. The mayor of Anan made the report. Dr Ducasse certified the sudden cure on 22 June 1914, and the illness was cerebral congestion.

Renée Mulsant of Bourg-de-Thizy was reported cured suddenly on 11 September 1914 of osteo-arthritis of the knee. Dr Irmann of Thizy attested the cure on 18 November 1914.

Private Paul Millet was nursed at Lorient from September 1914 and was reported cured of acute tetanus in October after a novena. The head nurse, three other nurses and two Sisters of Charity attested it.

Private Julien Viquesnel was held to be lost after a bullet entered behind his head, shattered the jaw, left through the nose, and half cut the carotid artery. He prayed to Sister Thérèse, and on 3 November 1914, while his wife made a pilgrimage for him to the tomb, the many clamps holding his torn jaw and ear fell off without being touched. From then he could move and eat, and the danger ended. The report was signed by the nurse, the soldier, two priest-nurses and two hospital sisters, with a certificate from Dr Rousseau.

Private Robert Labitte had a pierced tibia, a broken fibula, general infection and haemorrhages, and his last breath was expected on 5 November 1914. The doctor, soldiers and nurses saw an unheard-of improvement from one day to the next and an unexpected end of the haemorrhage. The report of 15 December 1914 was signed by his mother, the hospital superior, two male nurses and a nurse. Dr Deneleau added that he could not explain how the man was alive.

Private Duprieux, an overworked soldier, had typhoid fever and endocarditis, and the prognosis was desperate. A very great improvement came from one day to the next, when hope was lowest, in December 1914. Dr Foucher of Berck-Plage wrote on 25 May 1915 that the cure was complete.

Joseph Lhote of Sarzeau had double broncho-pneumonia with serious signs of meningitis. Dr J. Lahaye, who called himself a believing doctor, wrote on 29 May 1914 that he was convinced a higher intervention brought the unhoped-for cure.

Mme Hardy of Amiens was reported cured of a varicose ulcer of the left leg of fifteen years' standing. Dr Quertant gave a certificate on 31 March 1914.

Father Bergerot, a Lazarist at Monastir in Serbia, caught exanthematic typhus at the bedside of Austrian prisoners. He was reported cured suddenly on the last day of a novena, on 11 March 1915. Dr Michel Zamaoulil, a Greek, called the illness mortal in a certificate of 19 May 1915 and the present state very good.

Zélie Martin's sister, Sister Marie-Dosithée, prayed to Saint Francis de Sales at the Visitation of Le Mans and vowed that if the baby lived she would bear his name, Françoise. She wrote that if Zélie refused, the saint was free to take the child back. Zélie refused, saying the child had improved before the prayers. This is a family report and not a miracle attributed to Thérèse herself.

At about nine weeks old Thérèse had a weak intestinal illness that Zélie feared was the one that had killed two of her sons. Dr Belloc said only the breast could save her, and the wet nurse Rose Taillé arrived at 10.30 a.m. At about one o'clock the baby brought up some mouthfuls and fell as if dead, while five people stood round and no breath could be seen. After a quarter of an hour she opened her eyes and smiled, and from then she was cured. Céline, who was three or four at the time, swore it came through Saint Joseph's intercession.

Zélie forgot to push the cradle against her bed and went to the 5.30 Mass. When she came back the child's place was empty, and she found the toddler asleep sitting on a high chair by the bed, unhurt. She could not understand how the child got onto the chair. Zélie credited her guardian angel and the souls in purgatory. Marie said the child had fallen from her cradle and could not have climbed the chair herself.

When Thérèse was about six or seven she stood alone at a window of Les Buissonnets and saw in the garden a man with her father's height and walk, but much more stooped, his head covered with a veil. He walked toward a grove and vanished. She called "Papa, papa," and Marie and Pauline searched the garden and found no trace. She stayed convinced it announced a trial. In 1889, when Louis's cerebral paralysis began, he often covered his head with a handkerchief, and the family read the vision as a foreseeing of his illness.

Thérèse, aged ten, was ill from March 1883 with terrors, hallucinations, falls, loss of voice and states in which she did not know her sisters. Dr Notta is reported to have said that science was powerless. Her father had paid for a novena of Masses at Notre-Dame des Victoires. On Pentecost Sunday, 13 May, Marie, Léonie and Céline prayed before the statue of the Virgin, and Thérèse stared at it for four or five minutes with two large tears falling. She wrote that the Virgin "seemed to me beautiful" and that her pains vanished. Her sisters and Laveille say the statue moved, and she herself says the cure came gently.

Thérèse lit a candle to the Virgin every day and prayed that Marie would learn in time to meet "le Père" at Dover. A telegram then came, which she took to mean that Marie had met him. This is her own report in a letter to Marie of 2 October 1886.

Thérèse prayed and had a Mass said for the murderer Henri Pranzini, and she asked God for a sign of repentance. He did not confess. On the scaffold he took the priest's crucifix and kissed the wounds three times, as La Croix reported and she read the next day. This is her own report.

Her uncle Isidore Guérin said it would take a miracle to make him consent to her entering Carmel at fifteen. After three days of spiritual darkness and rain, he called her in and said he had asked God only for a simple inclination of heart and had received it. She wrote that for her the miracle was granted. This is her own report.

In letters to her cousin Marie Guérin, Thérèse wrote that in Italy she thought of her family so often that she dreamed of it at night. In Carmel she wrote that it was unbelievable how often she dreamed of her cousin Jeanne. These are her own reports.

Thérèse wrote to the bishop that the Child Jesus "made me feel so clearly that he wanted me at Christmas." After the bishop sent her New Year gifts, she wrote that the Child Jesus had not deceived her and had said yes from his cradle. This is her own report.

In her first summer in Carmel Thérèse grieved, and told no one, that she would never again see cornflowers, daisies and ears of wheat. The extern sister then found on her window-sill, left by an unknown hand, a sheaf of field flowers with exactly those flowers and ears. The prioress, who did not know Thérèse's wish, gave it to her for the statue of the Child Jesus. From then on she never lacked wild flowers. This is a sworn witness report.

In July 1888 Thérèse wrote to her sister Pauline that she had dreamed the lamb would soon fly away to its homeland. In January 1889 she again feared that Pauline, who had a bad headache, would die. These are her own reports.

Thérèse wrote to her uncle and aunt Guérin that God had given "the great grace" to the dying M. David, whose dispositions to appear before God she praised. She said God had answered all the prayers her aunt made for the soul of her dear relative. He died on 22 August 1888. This is her own report.

Louis Martin was very ill in autumn 1888. Thérèse wrote to him that the whole Carmel had been in prayer and that God had at last heard its sighs and given back her King. To her old teacher she wrote that Jesus had restored him for the time of her clothing. No diagnosis is given, and this is her own report.

Thérèse always wished for snow on her clothing day, but the day was extremely mild and rainy. After the ceremony, as she entered the cloister, she saw the courtyard covered with snow and wrote of a delicacy of Jesus. She also wrote that the whole town was astonished, and the community spoke of the little miracle. The sources differ on whether any weather record supports this, and none was checked.

Before she received her cousin Marie Guérin's letter, Thérèse sensed her anguish, and that night she dreamed she was trying to console her without success. Marie suffered from scruples and missed Communions. Thérèse hoped the Virgin would cure her on the last day of May and suggested a candle at Notre-Dame des Victoires. This is her own report.

Marcelline faced great outside obstacles and painful scruples before entering religious life. She asked the prayers of Thérèse, who had just taken the habit, and all her difficulties were quickly smoothed out. This is a personal report of the witness, sworn at the Apostolic Process.

Léonie had a swelling that her uncle, a pharmacist, thought dangerous. She hoped to be cured at the Holy Face at Tours or at Lourdes, and she planned to go into the pool. These letters give no outcome. This is a hope reported second-hand, and it is kept in the list for completeness.

When Louis's illness caused his daughters the most poignant anguish, the invalid foundress Mother Geneviève sent for Thérèse and her sisters. She calmed them by repeating words Our Lord had spoken to her, which were verified on the following day. The words are not given.

After the harshest winter, the flower Thérèse called "Céline" bloomed a month early. She read it as a sign about Céline's soul. She does not call it a miracle, and the winter had delayed the other flowers.

When a parlour visit ended too soon, Thérèse asked Jesus to tell Céline what she had wished to say. At the next visit Céline's own good inspirations and confidences matched exactly the advice Thérèse had intended. Thérèse said her trust was never disappointed. Céline swore to this at the Apostolic Process, and the Ordinary Process records it from Pauline.

Before Carmel Thérèse had transports of love and told God she would even go to hell so that He would be loved there. In her noviciate, for nearly eight days, she felt separated from her body and did her refectory work as if with a borrowed body. Several times in the garden at the evening silence she felt flights of the spirit. Mère Agnès reported this from Thérèse's words of July 1897. It is an inner experience, not an approved miracle.

Troubled before Communion, Thérèse thought that if she received only half a host she would believe Jesus came reluctantly. For the first time in her life the priest gave her two separate hosts. This is her own report.

Thérèse wept and prayed that Céline would not dance at an evening party. Céline long avoided dancing, until a young man led her onto the floor near the end. She and her partner were "as though paralyzed" and could not manage a step each time the music began. He walked her back to her seat and slipped away red with shame, and Céline went back laughing. She credits Thérèse's prayers.

At prayer Thérèse asked Jesus to find a passage for Céline and drew the fig-tree verse. She took it as a sign that God's kingdom was set up in Céline's soul. This is her own report.

Thérèse had asked Jesus to inspire Céline with the idea of little sacrifices before she wrote. Céline had the idea on her own, and Thérèse wrote that Our Lord had never yet refused her to inspire Céline with what she had asked Him to tell her. This is her own report.

In August 1893 Thérèse wrote to Léonie that their holy aunt's prediction had come true, because Léonie had entered the Visitation. This is a family report and her own report.

As a child Céline saw in a dream an angel carrying a torch and walking before their father. Thérèse read it, in 1894, as a sign of Céline's mission to be his visible angel. This is her own report.

Thérèse had asked Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the grace her cousin had obtained at Lourdes. She linked it to the cousin wearing the scapular and to her husband's shared faith. The grace is not named. This is her own report.

Céline wrote to the Carmel that in the night before Louis died she saw a luminous globe in the sky. Louis died at 8.15 the next morning. His brother-in-law Isidore said he had never seen so peaceful a death. This is a popular report.

Thérèse wrote to Céline that her "miraculous catch" was one of the little delicacies showing their dead father was near. She said he, now a pure spirit, had quickly made Céline's vocation succeed by going to priests and bishops. This is her own report.

Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie that she found her father again after six years of absence. She wrote that she felt him around her, looking at her and protecting her. This is her own report.

A nun, identified by the editors as Sister Aimée de Jésus, opposed the entry of a fourth Martin sister. Thérèse prayed to her dead father after Communion and asked, as a sign that he had gone straight to heaven, that the obstacle be removed. Just after her thanksgiving that nun was the first person she met. She called Thérèse kindly and told her, with tears, how happy she would be to see Céline in the Carmel.

A few days after her Offering to Merciful Love of 9 June 1895, while beginning the Way of the Cross in choir, Thérèse felt as if plunged entirely into fire. She thought she would die and wrote that one second more would have killed her. It happened only once and only for an instant. She told Mère Agnès the same day, and it was recorded in the Yellow Notebook on 7 July 1897.

A religious, before her profession, was worn out and in interior trial and asked Thérèse for comfort before evening prayer. Thérèse said she had no time now and that God willed her to suffer alone for the moment. In chapel the novice doubted her vocation for the first time, then felt an instantaneous and extraordinary change and came out transformed. Next day Thérèse said she had felt such pity for her that she had prayed for her at the start of the prayer. The novice's own account is in Conseils et souvenirs.

Thérèse told a novice who hid a sorrow, "You are unhappy." The novice was stunned, and Thérèse herself felt a supernatural fright, being sure she had no gift of reading souls. The novices believed she read their souls. This is her own report.

In a dream at dawn, three Carmelites from Heaven came to Thérèse. Venerable Anne of Jesus covered her with her veil and told her that God would come for her "soon, soon" and was very pleased with her. Thérèse wrote that it made her feel that there is a Heaven, in the middle of her trial of faith. This is her own report.

A fellow nun dreamed that a voice called for Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus behind a black door and said "She must be very beautiful!" Thérèse said it was a vision for her and her only ray of light. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

Burning with fever and thirst, with a hot-water bottle and iodine on her chest, Thérèse told Jesus she would like half a glass of water instead. The infirmarian, who was not expected back until morning, returned minutes later with a cool drink. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

In June 1897 the prioress had a novena of Masses said at Notre-Dame des Victoires for Thérèse's cure. Thérèse wrote that Our Lady of Victories had already cured her in childhood. She also wrote that she felt the miracle would not take place, and she asked instead that the Virgin console the prioress and make her consent to her death. This is her own report.

Thérèse called death "the Thief," who would come like a thief in the night. On 25 July she answered "Where is the Thief now?" with "He is here! He is in my heart." On 31 July she said she would be a little thief in Heaven and take everything that pleased her. After a large spitting of blood in the night she looked at the Virgin's statue and said she had thought it was going to take her away. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

Thérèse told Mère Agnès with a laugh that she had dreamed she was carried to the warming room between two torches for "Our Father's" feast. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

In a letter of 10 August 1897 Thérèse wrote that she had received her passport for Heaven. She wrote that her father obtained this grace and that on the 29th he gave her the guarantee that she would soon join him. The letter does not say what the guarantee was, whether a dream, a feeling or a sign. This is her own report.

Thérèse felt the devil tormenting her, and God asked whether she would suffer for Céline. At once her left side was seized with great pain, and when Céline lit a blessed candle calm returned. The editors note that the left lung was being affected in mid-August. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

Marie felt a secret despair at losing Thérèse, which had faded when she came in without any sign of grief. Thérèse at once said that they must not weep like those who have no hope. Eight days before the death Marie told Agnès she wished Thérèse loved her as she loved Agnès. That afternoon, alone with both, Thérèse said, "My little sisters, it is you who raised me."

Fr Granger, a missionary of La Délivrande, asked Thérèse's prayers for two very great favours. She promised, and the petitions were soon fully granted. The favours are not named.

The old Mère Cœur de Jésus, who wished to die soon and be fetched by Thérèse, received in Thérèse's last days the message that during Mass Thérèse had seen the tomb of Father Corbinelli very close to that of little Louis. The recorder calls it truly prophetic. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

Mère Agnès silently emptied Thérèse's spittoon and wished that Thérèse would say she would repay it in Heaven. Thérèse at once said, "In Heaven I'll repay you for that." A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

On 26 September Thérèse pointed to a dead leaf hanging on a spider's thread and said that her life hung by no more than a thread. Mère Agnès reports that the leaf fell on the evening of her death and that she kept it with its thread. A sister of the Carmel recorded it.

After her last words, "My God, I love you," Thérèse raised her head and fixed a point just above the statue of Mary for several minutes. Her purple, congested face took on a healthy colour and became white, almost transparent, and her eyes shone with peace. Sister Marie de l'Eucharistie held a candle close, and the eyelids did not move. Marie said the look recalled the cure of 1883. Before this she had a rattle for over two hours, a congested face, purple hands and icy feet. Her sisters describe it as an ecstasy of love, not as a miracle.

Céline called it absolutely supernatural that Thérèse, never taught, painted an original mural of little angels in the dark oratory. This is a personal report of the witness, sworn at the Apostolic Process.

In October 1897 Céline saw a flame while making the Way of the Cross in the cloister and cried "It is Thérèse." Later she heard the words "Bien humblement!" In June 1908, at 4 a.m., she heard "One gives oneself to Love only as far as one gives oneself to suffering." Céline alone swore to these at the process, and none is an approved miracle.

A lay sister of the Lisieux Carmel had once spoken unkindly to Thérèse over the wreaths round Mère Geneviève's coffin. For many years she had suffered from "cerebral anaemia," which kept her from reading or mental prayer. Repentant, she kissed the dead Thérèse's feet, leaned her forehead on them, asked pardon, and felt herself suddenly cured. Céline heard from the sister herself that she owed Thérèse the cure.

In the days around the death one nun smelled violets, and one felt a kiss from an invisible being. One saw a light in the sky, and another saw a luminous crown rise from the earth and vanish. Laveille adds that several nuns noticed a perfume of lilies and violets near Thérèse's body where no flowers grew. A child of ten among the visitors at the grille smelled lilies, though only artificial lilies were there. The Carmel recorded these reports.

On the evening of Friday 1 October 1897, the day after the death, Sister Marie de Saint-Joseph found her cell filled with a scent of violets. It was so strong that she thought someone had left a bouquet, and she searched everywhere for it. She swore to this at the Ordinary Process.

Mère Agnès swore that after Thérèse's death her limbs stayed supple until burial on 4 October. She kept a gentle smile, looked twelve or thirteen, and had great beauty. Pauline also says the coffin was closed on 3 October because some signs of decomposition appeared, and that nothing extraordinary happened at the burial.

Fifteen days after the death Céline saw in the sky a luminous circle traced by a flame that seemed alive. It left the right side of the full moon, circled beneath it, and re-entered on the left. It gave her a strong inner grace and sudden understanding of many things Thérèse had told her, and she was sure it was her sister's soul. A halo round a full moon is a natural possibility that the testimony does not discuss.

A sister offered to help Céline obtain an object of Thérèse's. Céline asked Thérèse and opened the Gospel at random to the words "like a man going on a journey who leaves his house and gives power to his servants." She took it as Thérèse's answer. This is a personal report of the witness.

Marie Guérin, who became Sister Marie de l'Eucharistie, had frozen feet and chose to mortify herself and not put on her warm rope-soled sandals, which she had permission to wear because of nosebleeds. As she passed the room where they dried, one of her cold sandals broke beyond repair, so she had to put on the warm ones. She wrote that it was one of her little Thérèse's tricks. The account is her letter to her father of 3 July 1898, filed at the Ordinary Process by her sister Jeanne.

The year after her death a case of pears and a basket of strawberries arrived, sent by the superior of the Hospital of Brest, whom the Carmel did not know, "to please Sr Thérèse." The gift came again every year. A sister swore to this at the Ordinary Process.

Alfred-Marie L., a dissolute colonial infantryman, read Thérèse's Life in hospital, reformed, and gave up smoking in May 1900. He wrote on 19 June 1900 of his daring confidence, and he died of sunstroke before reaching Tientsin. The prioress of the Carmel of Saigon reported it on 31 May 1910. Taylor prints "China" for Saigon.

Before a portrait of Thérèse as a child on her mother's knee, the prioress Mother Marie de Gonzague, who died in 1904, received a signal grace known to herself alone. She could never look at the portrait afterwards without tears. She said to Céline, "I alone can know what I owe her. Oh, what she said to me! ... but so tenderly."

On 9 January 1902 the procurator of an order reported that "the most learned theologian of our Order" had changed his opinion of Thérèse. His secretary wrote "Raptrix cordium, ora pro nobis" under her picture. This is a favour of opinion and not a physical sign.

On 9 October 1902 the Vicar Provincial at Wadowice, who had discouraged a Polish translation of her Life, was calmed in a storm of interior trouble by her poem "To live by Love." His letter is printed by Taylor under the title "Reparation." The year was checked on the page image as 1902.

Pierre Derrien, a Breton postal courier born in 1880, was abandoned by the doctors. Dolan says he invoked Thérèse in 1904 and was immediately cured. His own sworn account of 1916 describes three years of bronchitis, typhoid and enteritis and an inner voice saying "Pierre, I am looking for souls for Jesus." He says a full cure came only gradually and without remedies, after he accepted suffering. On 29 September 1913 a telegram from the prioress asked him to become "little Thérèse's servant," and he became sacristan of the Carmel chapel. The sources differ on whether the cure was immediate in 1904 or gradual in 1911.

During a persecution about 200 Christian women and girls took refuge at the residence of the missionary Roulland, who was away. Bandits prepared to attack, and before setting out they set off firecrackers to their gods. One lit their powder, blew up the pagoda, and killed or burned many bandits, and the rest fled. Roulland reported that the women were safe before they knew the danger.

Céline was convinced that Thérèse inspired her plan to copy the Holy Face from the Turin Shroud and caused its success. This is a personal report of the witness.

In January 1907 a Jesuit priest reported that an old woman in Brittany was converted after looking at the Holy Face picture painted in the Carmel. Taylor prints the letter.

Sister Jeanne-Marie of the Child Jesus, a lay sister born in 1886, swore that a look at Thérèse's image gave her strength in scruples and temptations against faith. In October 1907, alone in the kitchen for about two weeks, she did three people's work without fatigue, and every morning she found her cell smelling of incense. In 1909 an inner voice spoke to her about prayer, and on 10 May 1912 Thérèse's voice woke her, urging a sacrifice. These are not approved miracles.

A woman in the department of Eure wrote through a priest, in a letter of March 1909, that Thérèse had cured her of tubercular disease two years before. The account is part of a family letter that Taylor prints with the next entry.

On 12 May 1908 a priest wrote that a parish mission at "Saint S." in Creuse had succeeded after being placed under Thérèse's protection. Taylor prints the letter.

From September 1907 the lay sister Marie-Madeleine had a leg illness that kept her in the infirmary eight months, with an unbroken series of abscesses, 35 by her count, and wasting of the limb. In May 1908 the prioress proposed that she call on Sister Thérèse. During the first novena the illness grew worse, and a second novena brought complete cure. On the first Sunday of June she took up her kitchen work and did all the cooking alone. Céline links the cure to a veil believed, but not surely, to have been worn by Thérèse.

On 22 August 1908 an eleven-year-old boy fell about twenty feet through a trap door into a cellar and fractured his skull in several places. A doctor gave him two hours, and a surgeon agreed. A novena began on 24 August. He was unconscious and delirious for eight days, with four crises, and on the ninth day he recognised everyone and was calm. He returned to school with no trace.

On 2 September 1908 an exiled French nun crossing a crowded New York street was struck and thrown down by an electric car. She got up without a scratch, as the convent doctor confirmed, and the conductor said she had fallen exactly between the wheels. She carried a small photograph of Thérèse.

Father Taylor testified that an extraordinary event happened at the Good Shepherd convent in London on 30 October 1908, after which Thérèse's fame grew fast, especially in Scotland. Taylor describes the cure of a badly hurt foot of a young postulant, Miss Clark, on 8 November 1908, and says Thérèse kept her promise of coming down to earth. In Glasgow, the girl's city, 450 favours were acknowledged in the Catholic press within a year. The two dates may refer to one event or to two, and the sources do not settle it.

Céline, at first opposed to the idea of perfumes, found the oratory before Thérèse's former cell filled with a scent of roses in late November 1908, and she felt a breath of it on the stairs. She said it happened about fifteen times in two years, never in the eleven years after the death, and never when she wished.

Marcelline's brother-in-law, long without religious practice, converted on his deathbed about 1908. She had prayed to Thérèse and sent him a relic.

After a leg fracture, Abbé Pichon had a permanent congestion for nearly three years. In 1908 a wound came with heavy suppuration, and several doctors failed for seven weeks to stop a deep ulcer. On 2 January 1909 the doctor put him to bed without hope. He prayed to Thérèse, and on the fifth day the wound was fully closed and he could say Mass again. The doctor had ordered only bed rest.

On 25 February 1909 a university professor wrote that a young woman had been converted from a life of degradation through Thérèse. Taylor prints the letter.

On 7 April 1909 a Spanish Carmelite reported that she suddenly understood French so that she could read Thérèse's autobiography. Taylor prints the letter.

On 28 August 1909, during a retreat for Augustinian nuns, Abbé Pichon collapsed with infectious broncho-pneumonia after an intestinal blockage. Three doctors said he would die within hours, and he received Extreme Unction. He asked Thérèse to be obedient in heaven as on earth and to obtain a simple, quick cure without too striking a miracle. His fever above 40 degrees returned to normal the same day, in the 1915 version. The doctor said there was a hidden saint behind this, and Pichon answered, "No, a woman saint."

The nuns of Oléron asked Thérèse for water, and a lady brought 100 francs. A water-finding priest, delayed in Austria, reported that he saw at night a bright, majestic figure, recognised from the picture sent him, who said, "You are forgetting, Father, the Carmelites of Oléron, who need you." He came and found the springs.

The former novice mistress of the Abbaye aux Bois in Paris told Mère Isabelle that the volume of Histoire d'une âme spread an extremely strong perfume through the monastery. The scent later weakened and stayed in the first engraving of Thérèse as a Carmelite, which stayed scented for nearly two years. A sister with her said the whole community smelled it. Natural explanations were sought and not found.

The only daughter of Ange Presezzi, about eighteen months old, was dying of double pneumonia, and her father had already lost another girl of the same age to the same illness. Her uncle came weeping to the church at Concesa, and the cook, Brother Romée, said to pray to Thérèse instead. The lay brothers said seven Our Fathers and seven Hail Marys, and the uncle soon returned joyful. The child relapsed the next day and was cured for good within fifteen days. The doctor of Trezzo called it a miracle, and she was still well in October 1910.

Sister Jeanne-Marie, a lay sister devoted to Thérèse, was overloaded with work. The cook, Sister Marie-Madeleine, asked her to empty, clean and refill the kitchen kettle, which held about 65 litres. Sister Jeanne-Marie prayed to Thérèse and obeyed, and they emptied and wiped it. After she poured the first jug and went back for a second, the kettle was full, and Sister Marie-Madeleine confirmed she had not filled it. The sisters differ on how full it was when she returned.

A penitent in a Refuge was dying of influenza, with black lips and a doctor without hope. She promised to stay if cured, and after a novena and a relic she felt better within half an hour and woke cured. When she again wanted to leave, the illness returned. She stayed, said she saw Sœur Thérèse at her side, and died on 26 September 1910.

A man ill seven months and without religion since he was twenty began a novena on 15 March 1910 with a relic. On 19 March, in a coma with the death rattle, he sat up and cried "It is she! Yes, it is she! ... I am cured!" He confessed and received Communion. A fortnight later he relapsed and died after six weeks, having said he saw the Holy Face. Seven family members and his valet returned to the sacraments.

A frail pupil fell ill on 2 January 1910. Three doctors treated weakness and then hip-joint disease, and a specialist diagnosed paralysis of the spinal cord and tried electric treatment twice. In the night of Easter week she saw a little face smiling and heard "You will soon be able to walk ... this very day even!" At 3 p.m. a voice said "Walk!" and she ran to her mother. Three weeks later she made her First Communion, and shown the book, she recognised the face.

Fr Élie gave Teresita Morali an envelope with Thérèse's hair. She was distressed at having to do something painful, and she prayed with the relic held to her heart. Within minutes she was called and given the opposite orders, exactly as she wished.

A French Carmelite, writing to an exiled nun in Belgium about Gallipoli, forgot the town's name. She asked Thérèse and heard a voice say "Gallipoli," then "That is just what you must do. You must make me known everywhere. I desire to do so much good." She felt Thérèse's presence without seeing her. This entry is linked with the Gallipoli series.

A novice, Sister Marie de l'Enfant-Jésus, felt a pneumonia return that had made her gravely ill the year before. She had pain in her back, side and chest, fever, and difficulty breathing. On 29 July 1910 she begged the prioress to come and heal her with Sister Thérèse, then fell into a kind of supernatural sleep and felt a refreshing dew that tempered the fever. The pains left, and as a sign she asked not to cough for the rest of the day, and she did not. She swore to this, and no doctor's report is given.

When the coffin was opened on 6 September 1910, two unnamed workmen said they smelled a sweet and strong violet perfume. Laveille and Taylor report that the bones exhaled a sweet perfume, noted by several witnesses. After thirteen years in wet ground only bones remained, as she had foretold, and the palm was green and fresh.

A consumptive man of 28, of bitter character, had been 13 years away from religion. After a prayer for his conversion on a fixed date he converted, received Communion on 8 September 1910, and died devoutly.

Several sisters noticed an incense smell from a plank brought in from the cemetery after the exhumation, and Céline did not. Marie de la Trinité, Sister Marie de l'Enfant-Jésus and Sister Thérèse de l'Eucharistie smelled it on 15 September 1910, while the prioress and Céline smelled nothing. Céline compared the plank with the real coffin boards and found it identical, and Dr La Néele recognised it. A workman had hidden it in the brushwood in order to fetch it later.

A Canadian doctor's wife came from Paris with her son, aged six and a half, to visit the grave. At four he had had tuberculosis with a foot sore so bad that amputation was planned. Two and a half years later a new sore formed on his leg. He made a novena to his little saint and was completely cured. At the grave he said he wanted to be buried with her picture in his hands, and he asked to make a good first communion so he could become a priest.

M. Brossard, a man of private means in the rue de la Pompe, was gravely ill and stubbornly refused the priest. A novena to Thérèse was begun, and before its end he gladly received the priest, confessed, and received Extreme Unction fully conscious.

Father Ernest, novice master at Leffe, had stubborn laryngitis that made chanting and teaching painful, and for some weeks impossible. Remedies advised by several doctors failed. During a novena to Thérèse he was completely cured from October 1910, and Abbot Godefroy called it a very special favour. He now works as novice master, cantor and teacher without fatigue.

A young canon of Abbot Godefroy's community, about 25, suffered for several years from deep neurasthenia, and two months of hydrotherapy did almost nothing. He made a novena and asked for a cure on a fixed day, 14 October 1910. That day he was able to preach, and since then he studies and preaches without fatigue. Godefroy called it a very special favour and not a miracle.

When Fr Élie kissed Thérèse's pen and pencil, he cried "Oh, how good it smells!" He smelled a sweet scent like the sandalwood he knew from India, and he smelled it again on some other objects, but not on her mantle or veil. The nuns present smelled only mustiness. They said nothing had been put in the boxes or cloths to cause a smell, and believed it miraculous.

In Christmas week 1910 Sister Jeanne-Marie was preparing 900 to 1,000 relic authentication slips for the prioress's feast, with only about 100 cut. She saw the box nearly empty and the sisters who would cut them busy, and as usual she asked Sister Thérèse to help. After a short absence she returned to her cell and found the box completely full of cut slips. No sister had been in, and the prioress believed her. Mère Isabelle repeated it second-hand.

Father Van Aken, a White Father at Tabora, put Thérèse's picture in huts and catechism halls. After his catechists prayed to her for the country's conversion, pagans came in compact crowds, including from unvisited, formerly hostile villages. Some doubted it would last. His letter was quoted in sworn testimony and is not a miracle claim.

The superioress of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Greenock owed £68 in rates. After prayer, £3 came from a benefactor, and on the due day she paid £25 and asked for time. That afternoon a legacy of £65 arrived.

Mme Poirier (Berthe Chopin) was ill for two years with a serious internal illness, and the doctors called her hopeless several times. She invoked Thérèse with a cloth relic. She later arrived unexpectedly in Lisieux, though before she could hardly walk between rooms, to pray at the tomb in thanks.

Mlle Louise Alexandre had a serious eye disease that a doctor had seen and treated. She was cured suddenly and completely while she prayed at Thérèse's tomb.

A girl left a note at the tomb saying her knee was healed by a poultice of earth from the grave. Abbé Valadier mentioned the note at the Ordinary Process. It is an anonymous report and not a miracle claim in law.

Abbé Maupas commended to Thérèse three dying people whose conversion was difficult, and he credits her with the unexpected conversion of all three. One man, involved in the seizure of Church property and under Church censures, refused to retract. Maupas made a novena and asked, as a sign, that the man send for him himself. Near its end the man sent his nurse to fetch Maupas, retracted, received all the sacraments, and died a Christian.

An old man was given a picture of Thérèse to reconcile him to death. In a dream he saw everything ready for his burial, and Thérèse appeared, raised her hand, and said the time of death had not yet come. His fervour grew, and on the eve of his death he asked the Little Sister, "Don't you see that beautiful lady?" He died like a saint.

A poor worker had religious madness for a year, and several doctors said it was a very difficult case. At the end of a novena to Thérèse he was much better, and later fully cured.

A superior in serious difficulty promised to hang Thérèse's portrait. The matter was settled a few days later.

Sister Saint Jean-Baptiste, about sixty, was making small sachets for Thérèse relics during the time of great silence. Her petrol lamp began to smoke and go out because she had forgotten to fill it, and the rule forbade filling the lamps in the evening because of the danger of explosion. She called on Sister Thérèse, and at once the flame revived and burned steadily for the whole hour.

Sister Thérèse of Saint Augustine said her mother, a widow named Mme Leroyer, had asked Thérèse to be her guardian angel. Entering a shop on business, she was told by the shopkeeper, who knew nothing of her devotion, "What a delicious smell of roses you bring with you!" On another day a visitor at her home smelled violets, which had no natural cause. Mme Leroyer smelled nothing herself in either case. Her daughter also perceived lilac or violet twice, and said she does not want these sensible favours.

Bishop Prosper Augouard, Vicar Apostolic of Ubangi, was in bed for three months with painful rheumatism. He read her Life and asked her for his cure or his death, then withdrew the petition in the night and asked her to save a missionary from death. The missionary had sleeping sickness, and in France he was examined at the Pasteur Institute and pronounced entirely free from any microbe. The bishop himself was cured the day after he withdrew his petition. The sources give 1909 or 1910, and the letter is dated Brazzaville, 10 November 1912.

Miss Santa Aprile, about fifty, fell ill on 1 January 1911 with erysipelas of the face and throat of a gangrenous character. In 48 hours she was at the point of death, necrosis had begun in the mouth, and the two doctors thought of a tracheotomy. During the night, when all was ready for her burial, she saw mentally a very white hand touch her face and felt a beginning of well-being. Next day the doctors found her better, and she recovered slowly in spite of a new crisis of two or three days. Bishop Giannattasio swore to this.

Sister Alexandra, a Norbertine novice exiled at Grimbergen, had enteritis for several years. Her appetite and sleep vanished, she had sharp internal pains, and her death was expected. Two doctors called the state grave but disagreed on cause and treatment. During a community novena she was suddenly cured on 12 January 1911, and she then kept the strict Lent of her order.

Margaret Malone, a postulant of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Glasgow, lost the sight of her left eye after a fall. The community doctor diagnosed cataract on 5 January 1911, and two Glasgow eye institutions declared it incurable. After a novena of Communions she found she could see on leaving church on 25 February 1911, and she was readmitted to the convent.

Canon Daranatz reported two graces at the Ordinary Process. One was the deathbed conversion of a father of a family who refused religious practice, and the other was the cure of a girl of six. No further detail is given.

A dying man, kept from seeing a priest, was given Thérèse's picture. The night before a family novena ended, she appeared, so beautiful that he took her for Our Lady, told him of his death, and said "Save your soul!" He confessed at 7 a.m. and died three days later.

After a week of refusals, an old man of 80 asked for the priest an hour after a nurse was given some of Thérèse's hair. He died the next day.

Sister Stanislaus of the Blessed Sacrament of the Philadelphia Carmel died on 10 March 1911. A novena for her cure failed, and the account is of a happy death and not of a cure.

Earth taken from under the first coffin at the exhumation was brought to the Carmel in sacks and left in the attic. On Wednesday 22 March 1911 Céline smelled a delicious scent of orris root from it, and again on 22 and 24 April, and another sister smelled it too. The earth was then pounded by two men for several days and kept with honour. Laveille says the earth that touched the coffin kept its fragrance for months.

Alexander Grant's conversion cost him his livelihood. On a Thursday in May 1911, alone in his room in Edinburgh, he saw Thérèse standing by him and looking toward Glasgow, and he felt she was doing something for him there. He told his wife that Thérèse was busy with them at that moment. The following Thursday, unexpected help came from Glasgow.

A New Forest pony with double pneumonia, given up by the groom and the vet, was prayed over by Mrs Hilaire Belloc and her daughters with Hail Marys to the Little Flower. Within five minutes it walked, drank and ate. Taylor adds that the Little Flower had been invoked successfully for the cure of animals again and again.

On 1 August 1911 a wooden chalet burned, and the hotel balcony and a fir tree caught fire. A guest threw into the flames a picture of Thérèse with a piece of her clothing. The tree stopped burning, and the sparks rose into the shape of a dome over the roof, and about forty residents called it a miracle.

A Protestant couple, the husband a drinker, converted on the anniversary of Thérèse's death, 30 September 1911, and four daughters were baptised. Sister Catherine of the Convent of Mercy reported it, and Taylor prints her letter.

A cannibal chief of Malaita, who had killed twelve people with his own hand, converted on 30 September 1911. He named his baptised daughter Thérèse and asked to be called Peter. Father Coicaud and the Rev. P. Bertreux reported it, and Taylor prints the letter.

Bishop Giannattasio meant to send an offering for the cause in October 1911, in French notes and a gold 20-franc piece. He delayed, and the notes disappeared. He said she had come to take what he should have sent, and when he put the napoleon aside it too vanished some days later. This entry is connected with the Gallipoli series.

A poor mother with half a crown, who needed clothes for her son's First Communion, found a sovereign beside the coin in a locked desk on 22 November 1911.

After a fall, the Comtesse de Louvencourt had a painful foot, and a doctor said surgery might be needed. She secretly placed a small relic on it, and next day the bone was painless and she could walk with no relapse. A hard family affair also resolved unexpectedly. Her letter to Abbé Valadier of 2 February 1911 was filed at the Ordinary Process.

An elderly, serious Christian woman asked at the grave to be cured of deafness, and she was not cured. She wrote to Abbé Auriault that before the grave she suddenly understood that Thérèse reached her love through much hidden suffering. She felt illuminated by a new light and a need to follow the way of suffering.

A Jesuit of Abbé Auriault's residence, aged 74 and a good preacher, said he had no devotion to the Sacred Heart. He asked Thérèse for it and got it at once.

A soldier at the grave said that Thérèse had cured his mother of cancer. No details are given.

Abbé Weber and others made a novena for a man who publicly denied God. During it, to the surprise of those around him, he began to speak of God and repeat "Lord, have mercy on me."

A Calvinist known to Abbé Weber read the Life of Thérèse and was so moved that he now goes to the Catholic church and attends instructions.

An illiterate man of 72 saw Thérèse in a dream or waking vision, and she said, "Do not go to work in that quarry." He stayed home, and that day a stone fell where he usually worked and injured another man. He saw her again with a dead lay sister for whom he had prayed.

Mrs A., aged 75, a Protestant, converted gradually while kissing Thérèse's picture each night. Taylor prints the account.

Sara Pecquet, a dressmaker of 62, had been cured at Lourdes in 1900 of elephantiasis. In 1910 she offered to take back her illness for her mother, and it returned worse, with both legs swollen, erysipelas, gangrene and hip disease. In June 1911 Paris doctors called the leg wounds incurable. On 26 January 1912 she applied a relic under the bandages, and at 5.30 p.m. she found the swelling gone and new skin. The next day the nursing sister found the leg sound, with a circumference of over 36 inches reduced to 10, and the doctor said it was quite impossible to understand.

On 5 February 1912, the anniversary of Céline's clothing and the day the diocesan process was lodged in Rome, she was woken at night by a very strong smell of syringa. She heard something like a dove flutter and land on her pillow, but saw nothing. Céline alone swore to this.

On 18 February 1912 a lukewarm Catholic at Vancouver returned to weekly Communion after reading As Little Children. Taylor prints the account.

At Easter 1912 an old woman of 74 at Paramé made her first confession in sixty years after a second novena. Sister Marie reported it on 18 April 1912.

Antoinette Hébert had been in the hospital of Grandvilliers since July 1908 with disease of the right leg, on crutches, and a doctor at Beauvais and nine assistants judged it incurable. Plaster failed, she had three morphia injections daily, and the leg was shortened with the hip displaced. On the seventh day of a novena, about 2 a.m. on 20 May 1912, a voice said three times "Awake! Awake!" and the leg moved. In the morning she walked and jumped, with the foot straight, the hip in place and the leg of normal length.

At the Belgian Carmel of Bierghes-lez-Saintes a picture of Thérèse was put in the field, and the clouds cleared during Mass. The nuns asked to change the wind, and the weathercock turned north, and five fine days followed. Rain returned when the picture was removed.

A man who drank, and who carried Thérèse's picture and As Little Children, took the pledge in August 1912, made a two-hour general confession, and died repentant.

A girl of four and a half came to Thérèse's birthplace with one eye closed and bandaged. A doctor had treated it for several months without result. She came every day for several novenas and was cured at the end. She often came back to thank, and her mother gave vases for the room. Alexander Grant, then guardian of the house, swore to this.

Mme Boulay, the Grants' next-door neighbour, had a large cyst on her lip that grew for three months. The doctor said an operation would be needed within ten days. She stopped medical treatment, made four novenas with the Grants, and was completely cured with no trace. Grant's impression was of a cancerous cyst, because it looked like cancers he had known.

An Alençon post office employee who had not confessed for eight years was ill, and the doctor said an operation was needed. His wife told Grant that he promised to make his Easter duty if Thérèse spared him. Many made a novena. The operation was not needed, and he made his Easter duty and visited her room.

A superioress, bored by praise of Thérèse, challenged her to send a large ciborium. After a second novena a benefactor gave one, and then a second silver ciborium on 11 December.

Candlesticks and a monstrance were given to a Scottish convent of Mercy in 1912. Taylor gives no further detail.

Taylor reports that Cardinal Dougherty received $200,000 in 1912 and 1913. The dossier holds no other detail, and the report is not known to be in the Carmel's collection.

Mrs M'Nelis had puerperal fever with septicaemia. On 27 January 1913 her daughter Kathleen, aged four, brought six scented snowdrops that she said came from a nun in the sky, and the mother recovered. Her husband, Michael M'Nelis JP, wrote the account on 12 April 1913.

On 24 August 1914 German troops seized the monks of Leffe and jailed them in barracks. The monks had hidden their few bond certificates deep in a cellar, with a relic of Thérèse in each packet. An officer made Fr Joseph lead him there, poked everything with his bayonet, moved the packets, and passed on. A month later the abbey was found looted from top to bottom, but the bonds were intact. Abbot Godefroy swore to this.

Twenty-five Carmelites of Marche, condemned to be shot on 31 August 1914, were pardoned at dawn. Taylor gives the account from Abbot Godefroy Madelaine.

Abbot Godefroy Madelaine and the monks of Leffe each wore her relic and survived the massacres at Dinant on 23 August 1914. In the barracks they expected to be shot, and they made a vow to Thérèse. They were marched to Marche and interned on parole in the Carmelite friary. After three weeks the prisoners made a novena, and on its ninth day, 24 September 1914, the provincial governor came, at the Bishop of Namur's intervention, to announce they were free. Two English novices of Leffe held for deportation were released on 28 November 1914.

On 30 September 1914, the anniversary of the death, Céline expected a sign to guide the troops and climbed to the attic at 7 p.m. to look at the horizon. She saw nothing. In June 1915 Abbé Charles reported that the soldier André Pelletier of the 43rd Colonial Infantry had seen Thérèse at that hour as they attacked a wood, urging them forward. He alone saw her, and he looked several times thinking it a hallucination. The position was taken against expectation, and the soldier, far from God, was converted.

A bullet entered Claude Cholet's back and left through the upper chest, perforating the lung. He had fever, choking and suppuration, and one night he was thought near death and given Viaticum. After a novena to Thérèse he improved steadily and was convalescent at home.

A bullet crossed Adjutant Ernest Cholet's thigh and involved the femur, and the surgeon expected amputation. After a novena the wound improved and was healing.

Abbé Maupas had a serious illness in the winter of 1914 to 1915, and a novena for him ended on 4 January, the anniversary of Thérèse's baptism. At the end he was unexpectedly out of danger.

On 17 March 1915, the opening day of the Apostolic Process and the anniversary of Thérèse's veiling, Céline found Thérèse's cell fragrant with roses when she went to open the window. Céline alone swore to this.

On 15 July 1915 Céline heard Private Roger Lefèvre, of the 224th Infantry, aged 29, tell how Thérèse appeared and lifted him up as he lay bathed in his blood. He wished all unbelievers such an apparition. Asked if she was beautiful, he said "much more beautiful than on her pictures." Céline swore to this second-hand.

Sergeant Henri Lamielle, a stretcher-bearer, wrote that he saw Thérèse leading him to the wounded and saying "Come on, my friend, forward, there are souls to save." The letter is in the Carmel's collection of letters from the front.

In the Carmel parlour Céline heard Auguste Cousinard describe an apparition of Thérèse on the battlefield that converted him. Laveille calls him a lukewarm soldier, and Céline found him truthful. He sent an account that was printed in a wartime booklet.

Corporal Marcel Guyot of the 134th Regiment wrote that Thérèse led him by the hand and that his squad had no losses. The Carmel's collection of letters from the front lists other soldiers' reports of the same kind, including Pierre Aubert, Charles Gérard, Pierre Vanlaethem, Captain Tropet, and the naval captain de la Vaissière.

Marcelline had varicose ulcers on the leg at various times. In December 1916, after unusual fatigue, a violent inflammation began that from experience would become an ulcer, and no one could replace her in her work. She put a relic of Thérèse on the leg, and without remedy or rest the inflammation vanished.

A German prisoner from Bavaria, who had lost both legs, was dying. A French chaplain told him to pray to the saint of Lisieux. After a night of prayer he reported that he saw her come down toward him, and his wounds healed. He said he would make her known in his country.

Laveille reports that General Duplessis proclaimed Thérèse's help after a vow during the First World War. The source gives no further detail.

Laveille reports that an atheist sub-lieutenant died a holy death after wearing Thérèse's relic during the First World War. The source gives no further detail.

Charles Bourjade, a Missionary of the Sacred Heart who later served in New Guinea, credited Thérèse with more than ten hairbreadth escapes as an aviator. His plane carried her picture. His letters were published in La Croix on 19 and 21 February 1925.

Taylor reports a church in Belgium where 500 soldiers attended Mass. It stood in the firing line for two months and was never hit, though the surroundings were destroyed. Father Campbell, a Jesuit, is named as the source.

At the second exhumation in August 1917 the white silk ribbon bearing the words "I want to spend my Heaven" was found well kept after seven years underground. The 1917 account called it providential. The sources report no test of the lead and silk.

Military chaplains and others noticed mysterious perfumes near the place where the coffin stood in the cemetery chapel on 9 August 1917. About 3,000 people and many flowers were present, and the report does not say whether these were excluded as causes.

In June or July 1918 a revolver bullet struck the medal over Corporal Henri Bellois's heart. He had sent his decoration to the Carmel in May 1917, and the Carmel keeps his letter among those from the front.

Laura Fitchett, aged 13, had acute nephritis and dropsy, and Dr Garland saw no hope. She was anointed, and she reported seeing Thérèse as a child in a First Communion dress, with the Virgin. She was told to say three Hail Marys, was given a white rose to smell, and heard "Good-bye now, Laura, you are cured." Professor Patrick Beecher of Maynooth looked into it privately on 16 April 1925, and no Church tribunal did. Two priests' signatures and a medical attestation are printed in Shower of Roses.

At the translation of the relics a poor woman of Angers carried her god-daughter to the graveside by special leave. The child, aged twelve with Pott's disease according to the Carmel, could not move a limb and had been unable to walk for months. The woman laid her on the earth of the open grave above the coffin and prayed. After a few moments the child sat up and walked unaided from the tomb.

A badly wounded soldier, whose legs had been useless for fifteen months, recovered as the carriage with the relics passed on 26 March 1923. The source gives no further detail.

A Paris lady with serious stomach disease, unable to eat without acute pain, went home cured after the translation of the relics on 26 March 1923.

A blind girl's eyes were opened as the relics reached the threshold of the Carmel on 26 March 1923, and she saw the relics arrive. The cause of her blindness is not stated.

When the slabs of the vault were loosened at the translation on 26 March 1923, workmen and bystanders noticed a distinct perfume of roses. The Carmel dates it to about 11 a.m. and says it lasted about 45 minutes. Taylor calls it a delicious fragrance of roses.

Soon after the beatification, Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, bishop of Albano, and Cardinal Tosi, archbishop of Milan, were said to have been cured of severe and dangerous illnesses. Laveille reports it without medical detail.

Cardinal Touchet said that when the process for Joan of Arc's canonization was about to be interrupted, Thérèse, at his prayer, caused Pius X to revoke the decision. This is a popular report that Laveille repeats.

A condemned Protestant murderer, Sergeant Pearson, was baptised on the eve of his execution and made his First Communion minutes before his death. Father Romulus wrote the account on 26 March 1924, and Taylor prints it.

Bernardino Augusto de Lima had cancer and offered his agony for his sceptic brother, a deputy and academician. The brother received Communion on 13 May 1924. Rose petals appeared on three mornings in the invalid's water, the sign the brother had secretly asked for, and his symptoms eased. Bernardino died on 18 May 1924, having foretold that "Theresinha" would fetch him at eight. The account is by the deputy's wife, and O Globo printed it on 14 October 1925.

A woman was received into the Church on 28 May 1924 as Marie Thérèse after her vicar scorned her relic. Her letter is dated 21 July 1924, and Taylor prints it.

An anonymous Anglican wrote on 14 July 1924 that she was freed from sexual sin after hearing Thérèse's voice. Taylor prints the letter.

During the canonization novena of 1925 a young woman of St Paul, Minnesota, with chronic arthritis of the left knee, was reported cured. Taylor gives no further detail.

Miss Manning had laryngitis from October 1924. Her voice was restored at the Benediction of the canonization novena at the Boston Carmel on 16 May 1925.

Taylor, who was present in St Peter's, reports that five roses fell at the feet of Pius XI during the canonization ceremony of 17 May 1925. It is a popular report, told by an eyewitness, and it is not known to be in the Carmel's collection.

Mrs Stuart of Lombard Street, Philadelphia, died on canonization day. Her daughters Mary and Esther smelled roses and found a fresh rosebud in a sewing-machine drawer. Faces were seen on its petals on 17 September 1925, and over 100,000 visitors came. The clergy of St Patrick's gave the account to Taylor.

In September 1925 an East Cambridge boy of ten with infantile paralysis was reported cured. Taylor gives no further detail.

Alice Toomey of New Bedford broke her foot in April 1917 and saw 23 doctors. She was cured on 30 September 1925 with a relic, and the X-ray afterward was normal.

A financier of Rio de Janeiro shot himself four times in the head. He confessed, received First Communion, and talked all night with Thérèse, and the bullets were removed without anaesthetic. Fr Granier reported it through Fr Rubillon, with Dr Bento.

The house of Fathers M'Ardle and Conway at Hu-chow was spared by brigands in 1925. Taylor gives no further detail, and the report is not known to be in the Carmel's collection.

On 14 January 1926 a voice cried "Fire! Fire!" and warned Elodie. The fire abated when Thérèse was invoked. The letter is dated 25 March 1926 and comes from the curé, Joseph Dumais.

Cardinal Mercier died on 23 January 1926. Taylor reports that he was not cured, and that Thérèse procured for him something better, a deathbed. It is a happy death and not a cure.

Sister Mary Michael, a Franciscan of the orphanage of Our Lady of the Angels in West Flanders, had last-stage consumption. She reported that she saw Thérèse in a corner, and she was cured next morning. A scent of roses was later perceived from her statue by, it is said, more than 15,000 people. The Rev. J. Van Der Heyden of Louvain reported it on 8 September 1926.

A hostile old man, after several strokes, heard a voice say "you must make your confession," at the hour the priest asked Thérèse to go in his place. He confessed and died. A Belgian priest's letter of 1 September 1926 is Taylor's source.

The seminary at Tatung, with Fr Daems and 300 inmates, was unharmed for three months in the line of fire in 1926. Taylor gives no further detail, and the report is not known to be in the Carmel's collection.

Taylor reports that the Brooklyn Carmel was rebuilt after the three visions of a dying woman, with the building completed in February 1927. The dossier holds only this pointer to Taylor's account.

Taylor, quoting Veuillot, reports that a schism in a prairie parish was healed in 1926. No other detail is given.

A genealogy of the Martin and Guérin families is dedicated to M. Louis Gervais, "miraculously cured by Thérèse in 1930 of a tuberculosis of the bone." This is the only account, and it appears as a dedication.

A woman who feared death had an unexpected peace and calm at the end of a painful last illness and felt Thérèse near her. She is called Mme Guérin in the testimony, and no date is given.

Abbé Ducellier reported that Dr La Néele said a young man of Glos with an intestinal perforation, who should surely have died, recovered after the doctor applied a relic of Thérèse. No date is given.

A young man in a religious crisis who denied God's existence was suddenly converted during a novena made by his mother to Thérèse. No date is given.

A young man threatened with an operation for a tuberculous tumour was found out of danger during a novena to Thérèse, to the doctor's surprise. No date is given.

Canon Audollent, vicar general and director of the diocesan free schools in Paris, affirmed Thérèse's help. He named spiritual graces and repeated interventions to provide money for the work he ran.

A pious priest with honourable diocesan duties said he recovered, against expectation, a very large sum of money through Thérèse.

Fr Flamérion, a Jesuit priest of Clamart who died in 1925 and was hostile to devotion, read Thérèse's Life in one day and was won over. With a charitable lady he cared for a dying poor woman of Paris, condemned by the doctors, who would leave a girl of 16 and a boy of 13 in extreme poverty. For weeks she despaired and rebelled against Providence. The priest and the lady each made a novena to Thérèse, unknown to each other, and the woman became fully resigned. She died with her eyes fixed on a picture of Mary while her two orphans said the rosary.

A priest of the diocese of Nantes told Mère Isabelle in the parlour that he saw among the First Communicants Marie Freuchet, suddenly cured of coxalgia, a hip disease. She had been completely immobilised, and three doctors had tried in vain. During a novena Thérèse appeared to the child and told her she would be cured the next day, and she was. No date is given.

Mme Mallière of Trouville-sur-Mer came to the Carmel parlour with about eight pilgrims, including her daughter Thérèse, about eleven. A few days before the solemn First Communion the girl had acute enteritis and could not join. They invoked Sister Thérèse, the cure came at once, and the girl took part in all the ceremonies for the whole day.

Mère Isabelle received at the parlour the young Cadieu, about eleven, the son of a railway employee of Lisieux who lived at Caen. He had been suddenly cured of a tuberculous coxalgia with suppuration by the intercession of Sister Thérèse. She adds Reine Fauquet's visit. No date is given.

The rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris needed 10,000 francs and had none in the bank. He prayed in a nearby church in the name of Sister Thérèse, and a visitor gave 10,000 francs. That afternoon another gave 30,000, and the next morning a lady gave 150,000, which saved the University. Baudrillart thanked her publicly at Lisieux at the canonization feasts. It is a popular report and not known to be in the Carmel's collection.

The Secretary of Rites, who wanted the fuss stopped, asked through de Teil and Mother Agnès for a favour for himself, and the report says "The Rose had fallen." It is a popular report, and no date is given.

In a failed fishing season at Recanati on the Adriatic, the cook Lancelot, whose wife put Thérèse's picture in his pocket, asked for a sturgeon, which he had not seen there in 53 years. The nets filled at once and held a sturgeon of over 100 pounds. The boat came in flying the flag, and everyone wanted pictures of the santina.

A Liverpool factory owner gave his workers paid holidays after reading Thérèse's book. Laveille reports it as a popular report.

A sunken naval vessel, the Laverock, rose after a medal fell from the hand of the stevedore Mr Fisher. Sister Mary Felicitas, a Franciscan of Greenock, reported it, and Taylor prints her account as a popular report.

Taylor reports that a nurse made fifty baptisms, as a mission favour of 1925 and 1926. No other detail is given.

Taylor reports that Mother Kevin of Uganda received £20,000, as a mission favour of 1925 and 1926. No other detail is given.

Bishop McCloskey was said to be guided in the Carmel sacristy by a Carmelite whom Mother Agnès said was Thérèse. The report comes through Cardinal Dougherty and is printed by Taylor.

Taylor reports that Bishop McGinley of Monterey received a white rose as a favour. The dossier holds only the pointer to Taylor's account.

The first prioress of Lisieux, Sister Elizabeth of St Louis, was threatened early in religious life by a lung disease thought mortal. Archbishop d'Aviau of Bordeaux, visiting his sister at Poitiers, blessed her and asked "Shall we give her the days of Ezechias?" She was completely cured. The same archbishop later baptised Louis Martin, born at Bordeaux in 1823. This is a report about the Carmel's foundress and not about Thérèse.

On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December 1851, Zélie was making her bed after a novena when she heard the words "Have Point d'Alençon made." She started the business the next day, and Marie says Zélie ascribed it to the Virgin. This is a family report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

In spring 1858, on the Saint-Léonard bridge, Zélie heard inwardly the words "This is the one I prepared for you," about Louis Martin. This is a family report from Zélie's letters and Laveille, and it is not attributed to Thérèse.

Zélie's letter of 1 January 1863 alludes to favours known only to herself. Laveille notes it in a footnote. It is a family report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

The Carmel's summary says Léonie was ill for the first sixteen months of her life and was cured in March 1865 after prayer. The summary names Paray-le-Monial and Sister Marguerite-Marie as connected. This is a popular report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

The aunt was gravely ill, and Marie's First Communion was advanced a year so she could see it. Marie, at nine, threw jasmine crowns to Saint Joseph and was sure of a cure. The aunt recovered, attended, and lived seven more years. Dying, she told Marie she owed her seven years of life. This is a family report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

After her daughter Hélène died in 1870, Zélie feared she was in Purgatory for a small lie about a pear. Kneeling before the Virgin's statue, she heard a gentle voice say "She is here, beside me," and her tears turned to joy. This is a family report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

Before Thérèse's birth Zélie, alone, felt an enormous weight like a wild beast's claw on her shoulder, which she called an attack of the devil. Laveille reports it from an unpublished letter. This is a family report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

Just after Sister Marie-Dosithée died on 24 February 1877, Léonie suddenly stopped clinging to the maid Louise and threw herself into her mother's arms. Marie saw a supernatural intervention by the aunt. This is a family report and is not attributed to Thérèse.

Zélie went to Lourdes with Léonie, Marie and Pauline, hoping at least for Léonie's cure. She went into the icy pool four times and nearly choked. Neither she nor Léonie was cured. She wrote that God could work a miracle for her even if nobody in the world knew of it. The doctor "who believes in nothing" appears in her letters, and the sources name her tumour.

Pietro was born on 25 May 2002 in Monza with a severe lung malformation and was unable to breathe unaided. A Carmelite suggested a novena to Louis and Zélie Martin. His condition turned on 29 June 2002, and he left the clinic by 27 July. This is the miracle approved for the beatification of Louis and Zélie, and it is not attributed to Thérèse.

Carmen was born on 15 October 2008 in Valencia at about six months' gestation, with a grade 4 intraventricular brain haemorrhage, an infection, and lung and heart problems. The Carmelites of Serra gave the family prayer cards of Louis and Zélie. Prayer began around 19 October 2008, and she improved within days, left intensive care on the third day, and went home on 2 January 2009. This is the miracle approved for the canonization of Louis and Zélie, and it is not attributed to Thérèse.

Three reports concern the Carmel's foundress, Mother Geneviève. A small piece of butter was said never to grow less over two months until an alms came. A hard frost withered the apricot blossom, and after she prayed and heard "Be not disturbed, there will be apricots," the tree bore so much fruit that leaves were hardly visible. On a bitter washing day, while she prayed before the tabernacle, a thaw set in like spring.

In her last months Thérèse promised to make roses rain after her death, right after a refectory reading on Saint Aloysius, according to Marie. Céline says she promised it many times and in varied forms. She told Marie on 9 June that it would be like a shower of roses, and she said she would go round little baptised children like a white lady in a mission report. She also said that her relics would be sought and that she would spend her Heaven doing good on earth. This entry collects the promises as reported by her sisters, and it is not a single event.

Thérèse told Marie that a time would come when the Carmel would perhaps have as chaplain Abbé Hodierne, who would allow daily Communion. Chaplain Youf died a few days after her, in October 1897, and his successor Abbé Hodierne was named. His first instruction took the text "Come and eat my Bread," inviting daily Communion before the community asked, and Mother Marie de Gonzague's prejudices fell at once. This is a prediction judged fulfilled by Marie and Céline.

Marie and Céline swore to several other predictions that they judged fulfilled. One was that Mère Agnès would be kept so busy with her that she could not manage it all, and another was a harvest of young ones in the Carmel. A third was help to missionaries and the baptism of dying children, and a fourth was that there would be no incorruption, only a skeleton, which was verified on 6 September 1910.

All the nuns "except perhaps one or two" said they had smelled, at intervals, perfumes such as incense, roses and violets with no natural cause. Most were sceptical at first. The perfumes began right after Thérèse's death and were more frequent in 1908 to 1910. Pauline smelled them about ten times and, as prioress, made light of the reports. Marie describes a scent of flowers near the Child Jesus statue in winter, and a strong scent that followed her to her cell after a costly act of charity. Several Carmelites and outsiders said they saw luminous traces in her cell or in the sky.

The Annals of the Propagation of the Faith recorded unhoped-for mass conversions from 1898. Fr Roulland testified to Thérèse's influence in Japan, China and India, and Japanese Trappistines credited vocations. This is a summary of popular reports and sworn testimony and not a single event.

Countless favours came from outside the monastery, including spiritual progress, conversions, healings and apparitions. Pauline published 167 accounts, from 1899 to 25 February 1910, under the title Pluie de roses, with the Bishop of Bayeux's imprimatur. Thousands of requests came for scraps of her clothing and objects, to obtain cures. The judges ordered the printed Pluie de roses and copies of recent letters added to the Acts. The Carmel counts these accounts by the thousand, and this entry is a summary and not a single event.

Witnesses report that demons, speaking through several victims, said that Thérèse helped Flamérion, freed priests from demons, and chained those demons in the victims. One demon said, "It is your Thérèse who tore this soul from me." This is sworn testimony of what was said at exorcisms.

Marie quoted letters to the Carmel in her testimony. Fr Irénée at Wei-Hsien in China wrote that a dispensary baptised 2,000 dying children in two months during an epidemic, and that the baptisers prayed to Thérèse on the road. Bishop Wittner named little Thérèse coadjutrix of the vicariate of East Shantung in November 1912. A superior at Mousso in the Ivory Coast wrote that an invisible hand led them to hidden huts of the suffering. These are letters quoted in sworn testimony, and they are not miracle claims.

The provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor for Scotland and Ireland reported that a nun who had suddenly left her convent came back. Several old men in the homes who had given up religion for years were converted.

The Carmel counts favours by the thousand in its Pluie de roses, including showers of roses, with petals seen or found, perfumes and vocations. A White Father in Africa reported many conversions after her picture was placed in villages. Père Roulland reported conversions in China and Japan. This is a summary and not a single event.

Relics, medals and pictures were said to have stopped or flattened bullets beyond count in the First World War. Many were sent to the Carmel with bullet marks. This is a summary of reports and not a single event.

Laveille says thirty new miracles were recorded on the very day of the beatification, 29 April 1923. Taylor repeats the figure. This is a summary report and not a single event.

A quarter of a million pilgrims came to Carfin in under three months, and Taylor reads it as Thérèse's answer to a challenge. This is a popular report.

Pius XI wrote to Monsignor O'Gorman in July 1925 of very remarkable favours of which he had been the object. Laveille adds that Thérèse had thrown light on questions for him. This is a report of a statement by Pius XI, and the favours are not named.