Friday, July 4, 2014

Last Words: Saint Louise-Marie of France or Mother Therese

Louise at 9
  "To paradise! Fast! At great gallop!"*
 These were Louise's last words in the late December of 1787. You can call her Mother Therese if you really want to show the fact she is a nun, I don't think she would really care what you call her.  She was born in 1737, the daughter of King Louis XV and his wife.
She had the bad fortune of having  partially defected leg because of an accident as a child, but still had a high self-confidence through her life.
She became a nun because of she believed she was miraculously cured after she survived an event when she was young which caused her to almost die.  She came out very religious.  She joined the Nun order at Mount Carmel. She became a Carmelite! (a real word)
She was in nun servitude for 13 years. Till, which has been said on Carmelnet she was poisoned by her father's enemies. I really don't think that was the case.
They said dramatically: "In Dec, 1787, the attempt [of murder] was repeated by means of a packet of false relics sprinkled with poison. After having opened the packet, mother Teresa immediately fell
ill.
Louise, now Mother Therese in full nun gear.
Is it really possible for someone to fall ill suddenly from poison? Usually it has to build up in the body, least I thought it did. Reportedly she had complained of stomach problems and she fell ill and then died.
And the question comes to mind about her supposed murder : Why kill a nun? Shouldn't killing a nun be bad luck? Any nun is harmless; not that they carry machine guns or plot conspiracies on a regular basis or anything. Why would they care anything about her, even if she is the king's daughter, she is also a nun.


Sources:
1. Her English Wikipedia page. Note: Don't get me wrong, just little structural facts from there and see lines below.
*I had to get the quote from Wikipedia because her words vary widely across the sources. Since Wikipedia had the original french wording, I thought it would be better translate it myself.No Google Translate, I know french. it was said as "Au paradis! Vite! Au grand galop!"
2. Venerable Therese of St. Augustine by Prof Plinio: http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j052sdMadameLouise12-23.htm

3. TERESA OF ST. AUGUSTINE (Louise of France, 1737-1787) 
Venerable (D): http://carmelnet.org/biographies/TeresaStAugustine.pdf

There's quotables and there's Last Word quotables, which are a little more interesting compared to a regular quote.  So with this post I will start another segment-- not surprisingly called Last Words.

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