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In his balanced, insightful narrative, Bishop Ahern avoids the pitfalls of hagiography: He gives us no plaster saint, but a full-bodied portrait, full of shadows and light. The reader is left with a sense of the sheer divine mystery of the love and suffering?in every sense the passion ?of these two young people touched by God. It is a most timely book for a secular age; it is also a gift. <br>--Charles Scribner III <br> A beautiful and inspiring story; truly a book about a saint for sinners. <br>--Mary Higgins Clark <br> A marvelous book. Perhaps I knew Therese as a saint before I read her letters to Maurice and his to her; I did not know her as a woman. Now she fascinates me more than ever. <br>--John Cardinal O'Connor

In his balanced, insightful narrative, Bishop Ahern avoids the pitfalls of hagiography: He gives us no plaster saint, but a full-bodied portrait, full of shadows and light. The reader is left with a sense of the sheer divine mystery of the love and suffering?in every sense the passion ?of these two young people touched by God. It is a most timely book for a secular age; it is also a gift. <br>--Charles Scribner III<br><br> A beautiful and inspiring story; truly a book about a saint for sinners. <br>--Mary Higgins Clark<br><br> A marvelous book. Perhaps I knew Therese as a saint before I read her letters to Maurice and his to her; I did not know her as a woman. Now she fascinates me more than ever. <br>--John Cardinal O'Connor

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Patrick Ahern, an auxiliary bishop of New York, is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the spirituality of Saint Therese of Lisieux. He lives and works in Manhattan.

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