ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I WISH to express my gratitude to the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, at Tours, France, for presenting me with authoritative manuscripts in the French language, used exclusively in the preparation of this English version of the Autobiography and the Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter and of the Holy Family, a professed religious of their own community, who died in the odor of sanctity on July 8, 1848.

Furthermore, I here express my warm thanks to the Priests at the Oratory of the Holy Face, at Tours, France, for their encouragement and permission to translate the French documents on the Work of Reparation, emanating from the Seat of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, at Tours.

Finally, I take this occasion to acknowledge with gratitude the literary and spiritual assistance rendered me in the preparation of this book by Miss Doris Sheridan.* Her noteworthy research on the Cult of the Holy Face has been evidenced by her extensive writings on this topic, and particularly climaxed by her most recent book, The Whole World Will Love Me (1954, The William-Frederick Press, New York), which strikingly bears out that it was the Little Flower's devotion to the Holy Face which drove her to her unparalleled heights of sanctity.

EMERIC B. SCALLAN, S.T.B.