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  St. Therese of Lisieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Therese subsequently attended a convent school, but because of her shyness found the classroom difficult.
Therese felt called to the same way of life when she was only nine.
Physically and emotionally delicate in her early years, Therese at 13 suddenly became spiritually grown-up, strong of heart, and eager to be a saint.
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 St. Therese of Lisieux by John F. russell, O.Carm.
As we celebrate the centenary of the death of St. Therese of Lisieux in 1997 we remember that she took her Carmelite identity and gave it to the world in a narrative that reveals depth of commitment to Jesus Christ.
Therese noted in her autobiography that some women with whom she lived lacked social graces, were uneducated and lacked good judgment.
Therese had a profound awareness that faith, hope and love form a surge that is creative of new life and holiness and peace.
carmelnet.org /chas/terese_homily.htm   (1147 words)

  
 Thérèse de Lisieux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thérèse de Lisieux was born in Alençon, France, the daughter of Louis Martin, a watchmaker, and Zélie-Marie Guérin, a lacemaker.
Her mother died of breast cancer in 1877, when Thérèse was only four years old, and her father, unable to continue to work, sold his business and moved to Lisieux, in the Calvados region of Normandy, where her maternal uncle Isidore Guérin, a pharmacist, lived with his wife and two daughters.
In 2000 the St Therese of Lisieux primary school was opened in the parish of Ingleby Barwick, in the diocese of Middlesbrough, England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux   (2091 words)

  
 Therese of Lisieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Saint Therese of Lisieux was born in France in 1837.
Therese overheard her father say that he was glad that this would be the last year for this tradition.
Pope Pious XI canonized Saint Therese of Lisieux in 1925, and in 1997 Pope John Paul II proclaimed her a Doctor of the Church.
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 THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Marie Francoise Martin was born at Alencon, France, on January 2, 1873; the youngest of the nine children of Louis Martin, a watchmaker, and Zeùlie Gueùrin.
Her mother died when she was five, and the family moved to Lisieux, where she was raised by her older sisters and an aunt.
She died of tuberculosis on September 30 at Lisieux, quickly attracted a tremendous following as "the Little Flower" and "the saint of the little way," and was canonized in 1925 by Pope Pius XI, and declared as Doctor of the Church on Oct. 19, 1997 by Pope John Paul II.
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 Carmelite Sisters D.C.J. -- Therese of Lisieux
Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (also known as The Little Flower) was born Marie-Francois Therese Martin on January 2, 1873 in Alencon, France.
Therese was four years old when her mother died, and the period following was one of great suffering for her; she became extremely sensitive and painfully shy.
At the age of 14, Therese experienced what she called her "conversion" and was freed of her sensitiveness, thereby able to grow closer to God with no consideration for self.
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 SAINT THERESE OF LISIEUX
Therese's home life in Lisieux resembles in some ways the suburban life of our own time, and perhaps some of her appeal lies in the fact that ordinary people see in her a living proof that even the most ordinary things of life can be the raw material of great holiness.
Therese was the youngest of nine children born to Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin.
The're'se was a young woman of great courage for whom the conquest of self and the road to heaven were anything but easy tasks.
www.stfrancisvernon.org /sttherese.htm   (978 words)

  
 St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Carmelite of Lisieux, better known as the Little Flower of Jesus, born at Alençon, France, 2 January, 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September, 1897.
He preferred to leave the decision in the hands of the superior, who finally consented and on 9 April, 1888, at the unusual age of fifteen, Thérèse Martin entered the convent of Lisieux where two of her sisters had preceded her.
The account of the eleven years of her religious life, marked by signal graces and constant growth in holiness, is given by Soeur Thérèse in her autobiography, written in obedience to her superior and published two years after her death.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/therese_of_lisieux,saint.html   (342 words)

  
 Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Saint Therese of Lisieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Therese was born in France in 1873, the pampered daughter of a mother who had wanted to be a saint and a father who had wanted to be monk.
But Therese's "little way" of trusting in Jesus to make her holy and relying on small daily sacrifices instead of great deeds appealed to the thousands of Catholics and others who were trying to find holiness in ordinary lives.
Therese of Lisieux is one of the patron saints of the missions, not because she ever went anywhere, but because of her special love of the missions, and the prayers and letters she gave in support of missionaries.
saints.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=105   (2317 words)

  
 St. Therese of Lisieux - John A. Hardon, S.J. - Catholic Faith - Sept/Oct 1997
By the time of her canonization in 1925, over a million copies of the French edition had been sold and translations are now available in all the major languages of the world.
Thus the enjoyment that St. Therese found in reading the lives of the saints has been shared by millions of readers of her own life story.
"Therese and her Brothers on the Mission" gives some explanation of why she was declared patroness of the missions, along with St. Francis Xavier.
www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/Sept-Oct97/therese.html   (1521 words)

  
 Catholic Chaplets: Saint Therese of Lisieux
Therese's spirituality is of doing the ordinary, with extraordinary love.
My own story of love through Saint Therese of the Little Flower, beloved among Catholic Saints, is small in camparison to many, I am sure, but I share it anyway in the hope that whoever reads this by God's chance in a similar situation may find a bit of comfort.
If your chaplet is the simpler kind, you may tell St. Therese your petition either at the beginning of the chaplet, or when you reach the medal at the end.
www.marysprayersrosaries.com /sttherese.asp   (1263 words)

  
 Theresa, Saint (Theresa of Lisieux). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The youngest of five daughters of a watchmaker, she became, as proclaimed by Pope Pius XI, “the greatest saint of modern times.” At the age of 15 she was permitted to follow two of her sisters into the Carmelite convent at Lisieux.
She was canonized in 1925, just 28 years after her death, and Lisieux has become a major place of pilgrimage.
There are churches dedicated to St. Theresa throughout the Roman Catholic world, and meditations from her writings are read by many of the devout with the frequency of a manual of prayer.
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 St. Therese of Lisieux
In 1936 a basilica in her honor at Lisieux was opened and blessed by Cardinal Pacelli; and it was he who, in 1944, as Pope, declared her the secondary patroness of France.
In June, 1897, Therese was removed to the infirmary of the convent.
Almost from childhood, it seems, Therese had consciously aspired to the heights, often saying to herself that God would not fill her with a desire that was unattainable.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/THERESE.htm   (2332 words)

  
 Thérèse van Lisieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
aint Thérèse of Lisieux was born as Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin in Alençon, Normandy, on the 2nd January 1873 as the pampered daughter of Louis Martin, a watchmaker and jeweller and Zélie Guérin, a lace-maker.
Therese, along with her father and sister Celene, took a trip to Rome that later would change her life.
And it's a sign of her caring and loving for her community and people all over the world but especially that she felt that she was going to continue to love and walk with us and reach out to us after her death.
www.marypages.com /ThereseofLisieux.htm   (1265 words)

  
 St Therese of Lisieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Therese's Footsteps-- Alençon: 1873-1877 - Lisieux: 1877 - 1897
Therese of Lisieux: A Chapter Homily by John F. Russell, O.Carm.
Therese and Transformation a homily by Sr Judy Murray, ocd, given at the vespers service honoring the reception of the relics of St Therese at the Baltimore Carmel
www.geocities.com /baltimorecarmel/therese/index.html   (248 words)

  
 Therese of Lisieux on Vocation (Michael Kissane, O.Carm.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Therese had a desire to enter Carmel from the time she was very young.
Therese overheard the harsh words of her father who said, "Thank God, this will be the last year we will have to do this." She was hurt.
Therese's journey to Carmel is not much different from the journey that many people face today in deciding what God wants them to do with their lives.
carmelnet.org /sword/v57n2/vocation.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Blessed Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Catholic Pacific Northwest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She was born in 1873 in the Lisieux, France, an unknown French girl, the youngest of five daughters and the last of nine children.
St Therese of Lisieux chose a simple life of service in the convent, where she could be as "obscure as a grain of sand." In her daily life, Therese lived a holy life and did not go out of her way to show her virtue.
Although Therese never left the convent, she had a great desire to be a missionary and prayed fervently for missions.
home.comcast.net /~cpnwmarysaints/SaintTherese-Lisieux.html   (2243 words)

  
 St. Therese of Lisieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Therese Martin was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zelie Martin on January 2, 1873, in Alencon France.
O Glorious St. Therese, whom Almighty God has raised up to aid and inspire the human family, I implore your Miraculous Intercession.
Therese, my Carmelite Sister, I will fulfill your plea "to be made known everywhere" and I will continue to lead others to Jesus through you.
www.olfsecane.com /Therese.html   (732 words)

  
 Saint Therese of Lisieux: Doctor of the Universal Church by Steven Payne, OCD
But we are also enlightened about the life of Thérèse of Lisieux, and we learn her "eminent teaching," that is, why she was singled out for this particular honor.
In any event, it is the last that led John Paul II in 1997, the centenary of her death, to proclaim Thérèse a doctor of the Church, only the third woman (after Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena) and thirty-third saint to be so honored.
The cases of Francis de Sales (proclaimed doctor in 1877) and Anthony of Padua (1946) initiated this new understanding; Thérèse confirmed it.This granted, her preeminence becomes apparent.
www.albahouse.org /Therese.htm   (2371 words)

  
 Catholic World News : Pope Names St. Therese of Lisieux Doctor Of The Church
Therese of Lisieux, France, also known as "The Little Flower," was only 24-years-old when she died in 1897 of tuberculosis, but the Holy Father's proclamation naming her the 33rd Doctor in the history of Church, a title given to certain saints whose writings have been of fundamental influence in the development of the Church's teachings.
Although the young nun entered the Carmelite cloister at age 15 and never traveled except for a brief pilgrimage to Rome, she is patron saint of missionaries because of her promise to pray for all missions.
"Therese of Lisieux is a saint who remains young, despite the years that pass, and she is an eminent model for Christians of our day along the road to the third millennium," he said.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=6101   (312 words)

  
 C:\Periodicals\dossier\!NOVDEC\!therse.htm
She has given us more prose than St. John of the Cross and three times more poetry, which is astonishing in view of the fact that he was a university professor who died at the age of forty-nine whereas Thérèse never went to high school and died at twenty-four.
Long before she was canonized, people flocked to her grave in the town cemetery of Lisieux, beseeching her for favors which she granted with profligate generosity.
Therese's understanding of heaven Her eschatology was new and radical.
www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/nov97/doctor.html   (2527 words)

  
 St. Therese of Lisieux
The impact of Thérèse of Lisieux is examined from three different perspectives: the acceptance and presentation of her doctrine by the magisterium of the church (ch.
By examining Thérèse of Lisieux's experience and delving deeper into her teachings, which have a universal and timely quality, we are able to understand that aspect of her experience and doctrine which makes her a teacher and doctor in the Church as it contemplates its evangelical role for the third millennium.
Thérèse of Lisieux knew from experience what it was to be a woman in society and in the church at the end of the 18th century.
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 ST. THERESE
The spread of devotion to St. Therese of Lisieux is one of the impressive religious manifestations of our time.
Through her letters, the word-of-mouth tradition originating with her fellow-nuns, and especially through the publication of , Therese of the Child Jesus or "The Little Flower" soon came to mean a great deal to numberless people; she had shown them the way of perfection in the small things of every day.
Francoise-Marie Therese, the youngest, was born on January 2, 1873.
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 Saint Therese of Lisieux
We can apply to Thérèse of Lisieux what my Predecessor Paul VI said of another young Saint and Doctor of the Church, Catherine of Siena: "What strikes us most about the Saint is her infused wisdom, that is to say, her lucid, profound and inebriating absorption of the divine truths and mysteries of faith....
There is no need to dwell at length on the universality of Thérèse's doctrine and on the broad reception of her message during the century since her death: it has been well documented in the studies made in view of conferring on her the title of Doctor of the Church.
When the Basilica of Lisieux was consecrated in 1954, Pius XII said, among other things, that Thérèse penetrated to the very heart of the Gospel with her doctrine (cf.
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 Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Taught by the Benedictine Nuns of Lisieux and after an intense immediate preparation culminating in a vivid experience of intimate union with Christ, she received First Holy Communion on 8 May 1884.
She wished to embrace the contemplative life, as her sisters Pauline and Marie had done in the Carmel of Lisieux, but was prevented from doing so by her young age.
In September, she completed Manuscript B; this text gives striking evidence of the spiritual maturity which she had attained, particularly the discovery of her vocation in the heart of the Church.
www.vatican.va /news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19101997_stherese_en.html   (827 words)

  
 St. Therese, the greatest saint of modern times, The Little Flower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The portrait of St. Therese (cover) by her sister, Celine, is considered the most authentic representation of the Saint ever done.
Therese of Lisieux and Marie of the Trinity: A Transformative Relationship of St. Therese of Lisieux and Her Novice, Sister Marie of the Trinity
Therese of Lisieux: Her Life, Times and Teaching
www.llscotty.com /bearnmom/sttherese.htm   (403 words)

  
 The Trial of Faith of St. Therese of Lisieux by Frederick L. Miller, STD
For the final eighteen months of her life, as she was literally being suffocated to death by pulmonary tuberculosis, Therese of Lisieux experienced a harrowing "trial of faith." Although never faltering in her profession of faith, she had to struggle to believe in the existence of life beyond the grave.
Father Frederick L. Miller, S.T.D., a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, is presently an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and Academic Dean of the Seminary's Religious Studies Division.
This book is not only about the trial of faith which Thérèse underwent during the last eighteen months of her life, although that, of course, is thoroughly treated; but also includes a short, excellent summary of her life.
www.albahouse.org /Trial.htm   (537 words)

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