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Therese of Lisieux (French: Thérèse de Lisieux [teʁɛz də lizjø]; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face), was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus, or simply the Little Flower, and in French as la petite Thérèse ("little Therese"). Therese 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. She is one of the most popular saints in the history of the church, although she was obscure during her lifetime. Pope Pius X called her "the greatest saint of modern times". Therese felt an early call to religious life and, after 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 (another sister, Céline, also later joined the order). After nine years as a Carmelite nun, having fulfilled various offices such as sacristan and assistant to the novice mistress, in her last eighteen months in Carmel she fell into a night of faith, in which she is said to have felt Jesus was absent and been tormented by doubts that God existed. Therese died at the age of 24 from tuberculosis. Her feast day in the General Roman Calendar was 3 October from 1927 until it was moved in 1969 to 1 October. She is well known throughout the world, with the Basilica of Lisieux being the second most popular place of pilgrimage in France after Lourdes. Life Family background Therese was born on Rue Saint-Blaise, in Alençon, France on 2 January 1873, and was the daughter of Marie-Azélie Guérin (usually called Zélie), and Louis Martin who was a jeweler and watchmaker. Both her parents were devout Catholics who would eventually become the first (and to date only) married couple canonized together by the Roman Catholic Church (by Pope Francis in 2015). Louis had tried to become a canon regular, wanting to enter the Great St Bernard Hospice, but had been refused because he did not know Latin. Zélie, possessed of a strong, active temperament, wished to serve the sick, and had also considered entering consecrated life, but the prioress of the canonesses regular of the Hôtel-Dieu in Alençon had discouraged her outright. Disappointed, Zélie learned lacemaking instead. She excelled in it and set up her own business on Rue Saint-Blaise at age 22. Louis and Zélie met in early 1858 and married on July 13 of that same year at the Basilica of Notre-Dame d'Alençon. At first they decided to live as brother and sister in a perpetual continence, but when a confessor discouraged them in this, they changed their lifestyle and had nine children. From 1867 to 1870, they lost 3 infants and five-year-old Hélène. All five of their surviving daughters became nuns. In addition to Therese, they were: Marie (February 22, 1860, a Carmelite in Lisieux, in religion Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart, d. January 19, 1940), Pauline (September 7, 1861, a Carmelite in Lisieux, in religion Mother Agnes of Jesus, d. July 28, 1951), Léonie (June 3, 1863, a Visitandine at Caen, in religion Sister Françoise-Thérèse, d. June 16, 1941), and Céline (April 28, 1869, a Carmelite in Lisieux, in religion Sister Geneviève of the Holy Face, d. February 25, 1959). "A dreamer and brooder, an idealist and romantic, [the father] gave touching and naïve pet names [to his daughters]: Marie was his 'diamond', Pauline his 'noble pearl', Céline 'the bold one'. But Therese was his 'little queen', to whom all treasures belonged." Zélie was so successful in manufacturing lace that by 1870 Louis had sold his watchmaking shop to a nephew and handled the traveling and bookkeeping end of his wife's lacemaking business. Birth and infancy Soon after her birth in January 1873, the outlook for the survival of Therese Martin was uncertain. Because of her frail condition, she was entrusted to a wet nurse, Rose Taillé, who had already nursed two of the Martin children. Rose had her own children and could not live with the Martins, so Therese was sent to live with her in the bocage forests of Semallé. On 2 April 1874, when she was 15 months old, she returned to Alençon where her family surrounded her with affection. "I hear the baby calling me Mama! as she goes down the stairs. On every step, she calls out Mama! and if I don't respond every time, she remains there without going either forward or back." (Madame Martin to Pauline, 21 November 1875) She was educated in a very Catholic environment, including Mass attendance at 5:30 a.m., the strict observance of fasts, and prayer to the rhythm of the liturgical year. The Martins also practiced charity, visiting the sick and elderly and welcoming the occasional vagabond to their table. Even if she was not the model little girl her sisters later portrayed, Therese was very responsive to this education. She played at being a nun. Described as generally a happy child, she also manifested other emotions, and often cried: "Céline is playing with the little one with some bricks […] I have to correct poor baby who gets into frightful tantrums when she can't have her own way. She rolls in the floor in despair believing all is lost. Sometimes she is so overcome she almost chokes. She's a nervous child, but she is very good, very intelligent, and remembers everything." At 22, Therese, then a Carmelite, admitted: "I was far from being a perfect little girl". From 1865 Zélie had complained of breast pain and in December 1876 a doctor told her of the seriousness of the tumour. Feeling death was imminent, Madame Martin had written to Pauline in spring 1877, "You and Marie will have no difficulties with her upbringing. Her disposition is so good. She is a chosen spirit." In June 1877 she left for Lourdes hoping to be cured, but the miracle did not happen: "The Mother of God has not healed me because my time is up, and because God wills me to repose elsewhere than on the earth." On 28 August 1877, Zélie died, aged 45. Her funeral was conducted in the Basilica of Notre-Dame d'Alençon. Therese was barely 41⁄2 years old. Her mother's death dealt her a severe blow and later she would consider that "the first part of her life stopped that day". She wrote: "Every detail of my mother's illness is still with me, specially her last weeks on earth." She remembered the bedroom scene where her dying mother received the last sacraments while Therese knelt and her father cried. She wrote: "When Mummy died, my happy disposition changed. I had been so lively and open; now I became diffident and oversensitive, crying if anyone looked at me. I was only happy if no one took notice of me… It was only in the intimacy of my own family, where everyone was wonderfully kind, that I could be more myself." .... Discover the Therese Of Lisieux popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Therese Of Lisieux books.
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The Little Way of St Therese of Lisieux
Thérèse of LisieuxIn 1897, hardly twentyfour years old, Thérèse Martin died of tuberculosis in her Normandy convent. Born to a devout middleclass family, Thérèse lost her mother when only four and l...
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The Heart of Perfection
Colleen Carroll CampbellWinner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book AwardIn a book hailed as “liberating” (Gary Chapman, New York Times bestselling author), an awardwinning author and mother of fou...
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Saint Therese of Lisieux
Kathryn HarrisonSaint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twentyfour, becamethrough her posthumously published autobiographyone of the world's mo...
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Little Flower of Jesus
Thérèse of LisieuxLittle Flower of Jesus is a collection of poems written by one of the most beloved saints of the Catholic Church, Thérèse of Lisieux. Through her poetry Thérèse expressed the notio...
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Abandonment to God
Fr. Joel GuibertWith simplicity and grace, these pages illuminate for you the wisdom in Saint Thérèse’s Little Way, showing how it can enable you, too, to abide in the serenity of the childre...
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Poems of St. Therese of Lisieux
St. Therese of LisieuxSt. Therese was born in Alencon, France, January 2, 1873. Therese, a singularly precocious, charming and beautiful child set her heart upon entering the convent at the age of ...
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Saint Therese of Lisieux
Bob Lord & Penny LordSaint Therese of Lisieux aka the Little Flower of Jesus was possibly the greatest Saint in the last 500 years. Bob and Penny Lord gathered information about this Saint and present ...
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The Little Way
Bernard Bro & Paul McPartlanBro describes the life and spirituality of St. Thérèse with humor, realism and understanding with great insight
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Praying for Priests with St Therese of Lisieux
Maureen O'RiordanThis ebook about how St Thérèse prayed for priests out of love for them and for the souls they touch. We can share with Thérèse in this work of prayer, praying a special Novena for...
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Walking the Little Way of Therese of Lisieux
Brother Joseph SchmidtFrom her early years, Thérèse of Lisieux desired to be a saint, so the primary focus of her life was to walk the path of lovewhat she called “the science of love.” But she often as...
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Novena to St. Therese of The Child Jesus
Rev. Sr. ImmaculataEmbark on a remarkable journey into the life and spirituality of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, as you explore her captivating biography in this powerful book. Uncover the extraor...
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The Story of a Family
Rev. Fr. Stephane-Joseph PiatFabulously captivating and popular life of the Martin family, showing the background that helped produce "the greatest Saint of Modern Times." (St. Pius X). A profound reading expe...
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Therese of Lisieux
Judy BauerCelebrate the writings of this nineteenthcentury Carmelite nun who is remembered most for her letters, her poetry, and her "simple way" to holiness as described in her autobiograph...
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Therese of Lisieux
Barbara YoffieSaints are reallife heroes and heroines of faith who inspire us by their virtues to become more like Christ. In this series of beautifully illustrated early reader books, these rea...
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Life Lessons from Therese of Lisieux
Joseph F. Schmidt, FSC & Marisa Guerin, PhDMeet St. Thérèse as never before in this latest book from Br. Joseph Schmidt! He provides practical teachings on how to live a life of grace and gratitude derived directly from the...
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The Little Way of Lent
Fr. Gary CasterThe daily Lenten meditations in this bookall colored by St. Thérèse's Little Way of Spiritual Childhoodwill transform you, too, helping you focus not so much on what you have done ...
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Complete Spiritual Doctrine of St. Therese of Lisieux
Fr. François JamartOver a century ago, there lived a Carmelite nun, Thérèse of Lisieux. Although she was young and seemed to have no authority, she taught “a Little Way very straight and short” which...
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Everything is Grace
Joseph F. Schmidt, FSCThérèse of Lisieux has been called the greatest saint of modern times, but some view her spirituality as sentimental and syrupy. Joseph F. Schmidt, FSC, dispels that notion by cont...
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Enduring Grace
Carol L. FlindersAstonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mysticsKnown to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol ...
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Louis and Zelie Martin
Paulinus RedmondFamily life is built on relationships between spouses and their children. The Martins experienced joys, tragedies, illness, wartime hardship and bereavements, but their ordinary fa...
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Message of St Therese of Lisieux - The Little Way
Vernon JohnsonThe Little Way of an unknown Carmelite nun who became a Doctor of the Church. Thérèse died a painful and lingering death of tuberculosis in her French convent in the Normandy town ...
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Letters To The Little Flower - The Gift of Spiritual Companionship With St. Therese of Lisieux
Peggy M. PhillipsMarvel at the petals of Providence that mark every turn of the story.Marise Gallica uncovers a peculiar envelope in a shuttered Catholic grade school, which inspires her to wr...
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Shirt of Flame
Heather KingIn this remarkable memoir, join Heather King, a convert with a checkered past, as she spends a year reflecting on Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and discovers radical faith, true love, a...