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Thérèse, godmother of the Mission of France

RCF Orne broadcast “Louis and Zélie”, May 30, 2022

When Cardinal Suard, not yet Archbishop of Paris, launched the Mission of France at the dawn of the Second World War, his ambition was to once again announce the Gospel of Christ to the dechristianized populations of the urban suburbs but also of rural countries. . Former bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, he convenes little Thérèse in this work which will have an astonishing boom in the post-war years.

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