Therese Martin, a nun (later: Saint Therese of Lisieux) upon learning that on February 12, 1889, her father Louis Martin had to leave Lisieux to enter a mental institution, the Bon Sauveur at Caen:
"Just as the sufferings of Jesus pierced His Mother's heart with a sword of sorrow, so our hearts experienced the sufferings of the one we cherished most tenderly on earth. I recall that in the month of June, 1888, at the moment of our first trials, I said: 'I am suffering very much, but feel I can still bear greater trials.' I was not thinking then of the ones reserved for me. I didn't know that on February 12, a month after my reception of the Habit, our dear Father would drink the *most bitter* and *most humiliating* of all chalices. Ah! that day, I didn't say I was able to suffer more! Words cannot express our anguish and I'm not going to attempt to describe it. One day, in heaven, we shall love talking to one another about our *glorious* trials; don't we already feel happy for having suffered them? Yes, Papa's three years of martyrdom appear to me as the most lovable, the most fruitful of my life; I wouldn't exchange them for all the ecstasies and revelations of the saints. My heart overflows with gratitude when I think of this inestimable *treasure* that must cause a holy jealousy to the angels of the heavenly court."
