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Saint Therese of Lisieux, "The Little Flower", felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, she became a nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices such as sacristan and assistant to the novice mistress, and having spent her last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died at aged 24, following a slow and painful fight against tuberculosis.
Thérèse has been a highly influential model of sanctity for Catholics and for others because of the "simplicity and practicality of her approach to the spiritual life". Pope Saint Pius X called her "the greatest saint of modern times"
Feast Day: October 3
Patronage:
Missionaries; France; Russia; HIV/AIDS sufferers; radio care-a-thons; florists and gardeners; loss of parents; tuberculosis; Alaska
…in vain do I strive to meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary; I am unable to fix my attention….
I want to love you like a little child, I want to battle like a warrior bold.
I do not tremble when I see my weakness, for the treasures of a mother belong also to her child,…
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of…
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