Women in Christianity

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This paper compares and contrasts the lives of Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Aliva in relation to different periods of history, as well as their major contributions to the Christian faith in the past five hundred years. The paper suggests that although both women achieved vastly different goals in their missions to exemplify how women participate within the Roman Catholic Church, they both had major impacts on how women live through Christ.

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"Therese of Lisieux was born in France in the year 1873, and was raised in a Roman Catholic tradition. Her sisters had attended the nunnery of Carmel before her, and it was deemed that after she was healed by the nuns after a near death illness, she would be brought into the order when she was of age. In this early stage of childhood development, it was clear that Therese would have a future in the Carmelite tradition that had once been the nunnery for Teresa of Avila nearly three hundred years before her time. Teresa of Aliva was born in the year 1515 in the town Aliva, which was the base for the Carmel nunnery already mentioned in the childhood of Therese of Lisieux."

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