I have always had to find a way to touch everything. So when we were able to venerate several pieces of the true cross, two thorns, and one of the sacred nails at the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in Rome, I figured out how to slip my little finger through the gap in the reliquary during the veneration of the precious relic, and thus I was able to touch the nail that had been soaked in Jesus' blood. I was really quite daring! I acted like a child who believes that everything is permitted to them and considers their Father’s treasures as their own...
(Thérèse of Lisieux, ms. A 66r)
