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Some 30 years ago, a young girl died of tuberculosis at the Carmelite Monastery of Lisieux, which is on the Paris-Cherbourg railway line. She had written an autobiography-a simple story of her spiritual life. She was credited with saying that "God would permit her to remain on earth until the end of time"; that she "would spend her Heaven on earth doing good"; that she would "let fall a shower of roses." After these things was she forgotten by that great mass-the outside world...
Soon letters began to descend upon the Carmelite Monastery at Lisieux. They came first one at a time, then ten, a hundred, a thousand. These letters told of the good that the departed girl-nun was doing in her Heaven on earth. There were stories, attested by doctors, priests and numerous other witnesses, of miracles: deadly diseases cured, sinners converted, moral and material help rendered, etc., etc. Never was such a bed of roses prepared for mankind...