For the final eighteen months of her life, as she was literally being suffocated to death by pulmonary tuberculosis, Therese of Lisieux experienced a harrowing "trial of faith." Although never faltering in her profession of faith, she had to struggle to believe in the existence of life beyond the grave. Her struggle to assent to the existence of heaven caused her more agony, she said, than her physical disease. By her own admission, her trial was a veritable martyrdom as this well-written and thoroughly researched study so clearly reveals Her acceptance of the trial shows how in "little" ways, we can all fulfill the universal call to holiness.