Thérèse was declared co-patron of the missions with Francis Xavier in 1927, and named co-patron of France with Joan of Arc in 1944. The speed of this process may be seen by comparison with that applied to a great heroine of Thérèse, Joan of Arc, who died in 1431 but was not canonized until 1920. She was beatified in 1923, and canonized in 1925. Pope Pius XI made her the star of his pontificate. The impact of her posthumous publications, including her memoir The Story of a Soul was great, and she rapidly became one of the most popular saints of the twentieth century. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices, such as sacristan and novice mistress, and having spent the last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. She felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the enclosed Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. She was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church May 17, 1925. She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus". Saint Thérèse de Lisieux or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Carmelite nun.
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“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone–to a time when the truth exists and what is done cannot be undone.” Winston responds, and so Orwell goes on to write his own version of this very same diary, as a warning to the future for what lies ahead. For the future, for the past–for an age which might be imaginary?” Orwell writes. “He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary. Winston wants answers, and he goes on a journey to find those answers, but at what cost? 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