Pilgrimage to the Carmel of Lisieux

Lisieux is located on the RN13, close to the A13 motorway. The carmel is in the city center with several nearby car parks.

Lisieux is on the Paris-Saint-Lazare / Cherbourg and Paris-Saint-Lazare / Deauville regional lines.

The train station is 5 minutes walk from the Carmel. On leaving the station, take the street opposite to the next roundabout. There turn right and the Carmel Chapel is 200m away

All places are on one level. Two places for wheelchairs are provided in the 1st row of the chapel. The chapel is equipped with a magnetic loop for the deaf and hard of hearing.

A visit to the house where Thérèse lived for eleven years after the Martin family moved from Alençon to Lisieux after the death of Zélie Martin, Thérèse's mother, takes us into the intimacy of this family life, in a house bourgeois. It allows you to better understand the universe that built Thérèse and to discover the places where the main significant events of her childhood took place.

If the Carmel cannot be visited, you have access to the chapel to pray there, venerate the shrine of Saint Thérèse and discover the Memorial which presents the universe and the message of Thérèse making her a universal saint.

Begun in 1925, following the canonization of Saint Thérèse, and completed in 1954, erected to her glory, it is a setting which receives the great Teresian celebrations as well as the daily mass for pilgrims. Its crypt houses the relics of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin since their beatification.

A former bishopric until 1790, the cathedral is a jewel of Norman Gothic art. Thérèse attended mass there every Sunday and during the week with her father and her sisters. She had her first confession there.