St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Two Very Different Biographies ~ The Imaginative Conservative

St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Two Very Different Biographies ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Biographies by Fr. Bernard Bro and and Kathryn Harrison give us two vivid depictions of St. Thérèse. Yet, attitudinally speaking, their accounts of this Christ-imitating, self-immolating woman of Lisieux have little in common. Thérèse of Lisieux made the first record of her life, and that record, written in obedience to her Carmelite superior, is the primary source of the saint’s latest biographers Dominican Fr. Bernard Bro and bestselling autho…