Cause for Beatification: Ordinary Process
Session 14: 27 August 1910, 08:30

About heroic charity towards one’s neighbor
Mother Agnès of Jesus, O.C.D. — Witness 1

She was very compassionate, even as a small child, for the suffering of others. She was especially charged with distributing alms to the poor. Every Monday, the poor came to Les Buissonnets (our house in Lisieux).

Every time the doorbell rang, little Thérèse would open the door and then come and tell me: “Pauline, it’s a poor old crippled man! It’s a poor woman with tiny children, and there’s one wrapped in a swaddling band! The woman’s all pale!” And I could see deep compassion in her eyes.

She would then run off to bring either bread or money. Sometimes she’d come back joyfully: “Pauline, the poor man said to me: ‘The good Lord will bless you, little lady.'” To reward her for her work, our father would give her a few silver coins. She spent them all on alms, and that was her happiness.

In Carmel, she would have liked to be a nurse and apply herself to the relief of the sick. She would say to the nursing sister: “You’re very happy, you’ll hear Our Lord say: ‘I was sick and you took care of me’ ” (Mt 25:36).

At the monastery, there was an elderly, infirm, and cantankerous nun; she died in 1895. The Servant of God asked for the favor of helping and supporting her as she moved from one community activity to another. The quirks of character and abruptness of this poor invalid made this very difficult.

For years, the Servant of God devoted herself to this service with such constancy, attention, and gentleness that she finally earned the trust of this nun, who at first had taken a very dim view of her.

Sister Thérèse used to say that she guided our Sister X. with the same care she would have put into guiding Our Lord.

Mother Agnès of Jesus, O.C.D. (Pauline Martin)

Cause of Beatification, Ordinary Process
Pages 212r–213r

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