Origin: Alençon Historical identity: French Affiliation: Discalced Carmelite (OCD)
Life and work
Discalced Carmelite whose autobiographical writings present a way of trust, spiritual childhood and love in ordinary actions. Her short, largely cloistered life had a broad influence after the publication of Story of a Soul.
Places and activities
Alençon
1873-1877
Spent her early childhood with Louis and Zélie Martin.
Years are historical biographical dates; an approximate label on a place record remains approximate.
Selected sourced locations; not a complete itinerary. All geographic coordinates are approximate.
Lifetime associations, not citizenship or a claim that all affiliations were held simultaneously.
Official modern biographical overview; not contemporary evidence for the saint's travels.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1922. Biographical article.
Oxford University Press, 2011. Recommended reference; consult the relevant entry and its bibliography. Not treated as read evidence for individual seed claims.
Primary text or author archive. Its presence in the bibliography does not by itself support every map claim.