phenomenon of Thérèse’s postmortem popularity. Within a few years of her death, reports of favors and miracles granted through her intercession began to flood into the convent at Lisieux from all over the world. In The Story of a Soul, Thérèse had written that after her death she would send a pluie de roses (a shower of roses) on the earth, and this promise, it seemed, was being fulfilled. In 1925, just twenty-eight years after her death, a volume of three thousand closely printed pages reproducing