A review by patrickkoval
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Thérèse de Lisieux

5.0

There's something very humanizing about reading a saint's life in their own words. The title can sometimes strip someone of their capacity to be human, in the sense of experiencing doubt, pain, or general difficulty. Without these personal narratives, there's a tendency to believe that every moment in one's life had been leading to them being canonized, which runs counter to the seeming mission of canonization to elevate the best of humanity rather than make people seem more than human or having done something unattainable by any other.