Relic Reliquary Relique Reliquaire Reliquia Reliquiario Soeur Therese de l E J

Description

A very large quite extraordinary reliquary with a large amount of hair inside and inscription says " Soeur Therese de l'Enfante Jesus.
this relic comes in its box and is in very good condition. a lid at the back opens and there is a seal of Mons. Rogerii De Teil Vice postulator of the cause of her sainthood.
This relic may have been done in the first years of the 20th century ( 1905 - 1910 ) as Sister Therese was exhumed for the first time in 1910 for beatification.
there are threads at the back of the relic of which only one out of 6 is broken. relic sealed and still firm in place. an inscription in french is inside the lid with a short biography of the saintly nun.
This relic belonged to a deceased noble french lady from a noble family. They had a cardinal in their family that left this to her in his will.
Who was Sister Therese of the child Jesus?
Therese of Lisieux
(
French
:
sainte Thérèse de Lisieux
), born
Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin
(2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
, was a French
Catholic
Discalced Carmelite
nun
who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus", or simply "The Little Flower.”
Therese has been a highly influential model of sanctity for Catholics and for others because of the simplicity and practicality of her approach to the spiritual life. Together with
Francis of Assisi
, she is one of the most popular
saints
in the history of the church.
[2]
[3]
Pope Pius X
called her "the greatest saint of modern times".
[4]
[5]
Therese felt an early
call to religious life
and after overcoming various obstacles in 1888, at the early age of 15,
[6]
she became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the
cloistered
Carmelite community of
Lisieux
,
Normandy
(yet another sister, Céline, also later joined the order). After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices such as
sacristan
and assistant to the
novice mistress
, in her last eighteen months in Carmel she fell into a
night of faith
, in which she is said to have felt Jesus was absent and been tormented by doubts that God existed. Therese died at the age of 24 from
tuberculosis
.
Her
feast day
in the
General Roman Calendar
was 3 October from 1927 until it was moved in 1969 to 1 October.
[7]
Therese is well known throughout the world, with the
Basilica of Lisieux
being the second most popular place of pilgrimage in France after
Lourdes
.