(1) Thérèse de Lisieux, Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1992, p. 1414.

(2) Ibid., p. 1415.

(3) Stéphane-Joseph Piat, O.F.M., Céline, Sister Geneviève of the Holy Face: Sister and Witness to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1997, pp.129-131.

(4) Thérèse de Lisieux, Oeuvres Complètes, p. 1415. The translation from French is mine.

(5) http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ ns_lit_doc_20040425_montoya_en.html

(6) Ibid.

(7) The Jesuit motto is Ad majorem Dei gloriam (For the greater glory of God).

( 8 ) http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ ns_lit_doc_20040425_montoya_en.html

(9) Ibid.

(10) John 1:31

(11) John 3:30

(12) http://www.oremosjuntos.com/SantoralLatino/LauraMontoya Upegui.html. The English translation from Spanish is mine.

(13) Ibid.

(14) http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ ns_lit_doc_20040425_montoya_en.html

(15) Ibid.

(16) Ibid.

(17) http://www.oremosjuntos.com/SantoralLatino/LauraMontoya Upegui.html.