Saint Therese of Lisieux tells how she recovered from depression

Today we want to talk to you about an almost unknown life episode that has the protagonist Santa Teresa of Lieux.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus is a French Catholic saint. She was born on 2 January 1873 in Alencon, France and lived alone 24 years. She was declared a saint in 1925 by Pope Pius XI.

In one episode, reported in her writings, Saint Teresa tells of the mysterious illness that struck her in 1882.

The depression of Santa Teresa

In that period, for almost a year, the saint warned continuously head pains, but despite everything, he continued to study and carry out all his duties.

At Easter of 1883, was at his uncles house and when it was time to go to bed, he felt a strong tremor. Thinking that the girl was cold, her aunt wrapped her in blankets, but nothing about her could allay this unwell state of hers.

When the day after the doctor he went to visit her and communicated to her and her uncles that it was a very serious illness that had never affected such a young girl. When we got home her uncles put her to bed, despite her Teresa she kept saying she felt better than her. The next day, she felt such a profound unease that she thought it was the work of demon.

Unfortunately at the time, this disease give strange symptoms, was not taken much into consideration and many people thought that the girl had made it all up. The more people didn't believe him, the more Teresa's malaise increased.

The Saint, then only a little girl, remembers that in those periods she could not think, she almost always appeared in delirium and she was so stunned that if they killed her, she wouldn't even notice. She was at the mercy of anything and anyone.

The testimony of cousin Marie Guerin

Santa Teresa's cousin, Marie Guerin, remembers the entire evolutionary path of the cousin's disease. The malaise made its debut with a fever which quickly turned into depression. Depression manifested itself with states of hallucination that made him see things and people around him as monstrous beings. In the most terrible phase of the disease Teresa had to face various motor crises, moments in which the body rotated on itself. She writhed and exhausted she just wanted to die.

It was the May 13, 1883, when Teresa, now at the limit of her strength, turns to the Mother of Heaven and asks him to have mercy on her. He prayed with all her heart in front of the statue of the Virgin next to her.

Suddenly the face of the Madonna appeared to her tender and full of sweetness, her enchanting smile. At that moment all her pains disappeared and tears of joy they scratched her face. all the suffering and pain had finally disappeared and his heart had reopened to hope.