On 1 October we celebrate the feast day of St Thérèse of Lisieux, our Carmelite Sister, Doctor of the Church. Long before her Canonisation, Pope St Pius X described her as “the greatest Saint of modern times.” Thérèse was born in Alençon, Normandy, on 2 January 1873, the ninth and youngest child of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin (née Guerin). The story of her life is well known and can be read in her own autobiography, The Story of a Soul,which was written at the request of her older sister Pauline who at the time was also her Prioress in
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“Albert, called by God’s favour to be patriarch of the church of Jerusalem, bids health in the Lord and the blessing of the Holy Spirit to his beloved sons in Christ, B[rocard], and the other hermits under obedience to him, who live near the spring of  Elias on Mount Carmel.” This is the prologue of the Carmelite Rule, also known as the Rule of St Albert, written between 1205 and 1214 by St Albert of Jerusalem whose feast day is 17 September. Albert Avogadro was born in the mid 12thCentury in Castel Gualteri in Italy.  He entered the Canons Regular
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