in connection with late-medieval forms of piety, gave rise to a new devotion to the Holy Face, which reached its apex in Thérèse of Lisieux, when she called herself Thérèse “of the Child Jesus” and “of the Holy Face”. Both titles allude to God’s kenosis, his becoming little, his descent into the misery of the human condition. Whereas the first title presents the lovable side of this descent, the second one emphasizes the aspect of the Passion, for in this world the face of Christ is a “bleeding Head, so wounded”; precisely in this way it manifests the mystery of God’s love and the true face of
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