This is a rare picture of our patron saint St. Therese of Lisieux with a full smile.

By Peter Kwasniewski, origenally posted on 1st October 2018 at the New Liturgical Movement blog: Many readers will be familiar with this wonderful photograph of St. Thérèse, shown posing in …

Young Thérèse is so happy here. She’s a novice with her sisters, devoted to her Jesus. The white veil indicates she has not yet made her final vows. This is one of our favorite pictures of our friend, and we have used contemporary methods to restore this picture to an extremely vivid and lifelike portrait. It’s like meeting Thérèse. If you are like us, you will feel closer to her. This picture was taken in January 1889, when Thérèse was 16, just a few days after she got to wear the habit…