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	St. Therese of Lisieux
		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.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id113.htm (1991 words)

	Thérèse de Lisieux - Wikipedia
		Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897), or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus"), born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonised as a saint, and is one of only 33 Doctors of the Church.
		St 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Therese_de_Lisieux (1165 words)

	Saint Therese of Lisieux - Catholic Online
		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.
		Therese tells us that she wanted to be good but that she had an odd way of going about.
		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.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=105 (2622 words)

	THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
	www.nguoitinhuu.com /gioitre/therese.html (239 words)

	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)

	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)

	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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/TheresaL.html (376 words)

	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.
	www.shoal.net.au /~mwoa/documents/saint_therese.html (4449 words)

	Saint Theresa Homepage
		Lisieux in 1889 when she was 15 years old.
		Therese choose for her motto the well known words of St. John of the Cross: "Love is repaid
		Therese was faithful in offering her sufferings in union with Christ.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/1956/therese.htm (857 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)

	Society of the Little Flower - St. Therese, "the little flower"
		Therese Martin was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zelie Martin on January 2, 1873, in Alencon France.
		At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life.
		Therese saw the seasons as reflecting the seasons of God's love affair with us.
	www.littleflower.org /learn/littleflower.asp (461 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.
	carmelitesofeldridge.org /Theresedoc.html (6005 words)

	Catholic Chaplets: Saint Therese of Lisieux
		Therese Martin was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zelie Martin on January 2, 1873, in Alencon France.
		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)

	Therese of Lisieux: The Centaury Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the time of Therese's birth, her mother had breast cancer, and at the age of two months Therese had to be given to a couple living in the nearby countryside to be nursed due to her mother's illness.
		Therese received so much loving attention from her father and sisters after her mother's death that perhaps basic Chicory needs were met to a sufficient degree not to cause a full-blown Chicory personality to develop.
		Therese herself, in reflecting as an adult on herself as a child of 12 1/2 (just before her major conversion experience), says, "I was only a child who appeared to have no will but that of others." Therese had a deeply spiritual nature and a desire to grow in holiness.
	www.healingflowers.net /thereseoflisieux (3375 words)

	Thérèse van Lisieux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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 (1163 words)

	Monastery of St. Therese: Our Patroness, St. Therese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, better known as "The Little Flower," St. Therese of Lisieux, was born in Alencon, France in 1873.
		Upon her death, the nuns received permission to distribute Therese's autobiography, comprised of material that she had written at the command of her superiors and the request of one of her sisters in the monastery.
		In her life and her writings, St. Therese anticipated the teachings of the Second Vatican Council by showing that the path of holiness is open to all.
	www.rc.net /detroit/carmelite/therese.htm (631 words)

	Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus (the Little Flower) Franch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Therese Martin entered a Carmelite convent at the age of fifteen.
		It is commonly believed that Saint Therese grants the sign of a rose to those who practice this devotion during a period of 9 to 24 days, as a proof that the petition is granted.
		"St. Therese of the Infant Jesus, Patroness of Missions, pray for us." On each of the remaining 24 beads say, "the Glory be.....," in honor of the Blessed Trinity, in thanksgiving for giving the world the Little Saint who lived only 24 years.
	www.basecamp.cnchost.com /teresa-f.htm (486 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : October 01, 2005 : Therese of the Child Jesus
		Her sister Céline and cousin Marier Guérin had become interested in the art of photography, and when Céline entered the Carmelites with her sisters, she was given permission to bring her equipment and use it in the convent.
		In more recent times, St. Therese of Lisieux shows us the courageous way of abandonment into the hands of God to whom she entrusts her littleness.
		Therese's dying words were: "I will let fall a shower of roses after my death." This site has some wonderful old-fashioned rose recipes.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-10-01 (1285 words)

	Carmel of Eldridge Iowa: Therese of Lisieux
		Therese's style is effusive because that is what she is used to.
		Thérèse's cousin, Marie Guerin, who was also one of her novices in Lisieux Carmel, said to her, "I promise you that I'll be a saint when you have left for heaven; at that moment, I'll put my whole heart into it." Thérèse answered, "Don't wait for that.
		As so often in the autobiography, Therese is more at ease when using a long extended figure of speech in which she can refer to herself in the third person.
	showcase.netins.net /web/solitude/therese.html (7313 words)

	Blessed Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Catholic Pacific Northwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		One of the reasons Therese was chosen as a patron of missions is to highlight the importance of praying for the success of missionaries.
	home.comcast.net /~cpnwmarysaints/SaintTherese-Lisieux.html (2243 words)

	St. Therese
		Therese believed that since God is total Spirit and all powerful, the Almighty would grant her this request because of her extraordinary confidence.
		Therese reflected that she would be the heart of the Church with a missionary spirit.
		Therese developed a passionate longing to be a lover of the Church through her missionary spirit of prayer, sacrifice and love for others.
	www.doctorsofthecatholicchurch.com /TL.html (4987 words)

	St. Thérèse of Lisieux
		The spread of the cult of St. Thérèse of Lisieux is one of the impressive religious manifestations of our time.
		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.
		Although she was affectionate and had much natural charm, family was stricken by the sad blow of the mother's death.
	www.marys-touch.com /Saints/therese.htm (2394 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Therese 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.newadvent.org /cathen/17721a.htm (396 words)

	Saint Therese of Lisieux - Cana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Saint Therese of Lisieux was a very cheerful and happy girl.
		Throughout her life, Therese was known to be a happy person, even when faced with illness.
		We, like Therese, must smile with Jesus and show the world that we are in love with Christ, and He is our happiness.
	www.redshift.com /~parola/octart2.htm (364 words)

	Saint Therese of Lisieux
		Therese Martin entered the convent at the age of 15 and died in 1897 at the age of 24.
		But Therese possessed that holy insight that redeems the time, however dull that time may be.
		Therese said she came to the Carmel Convent "to save souls and pray for priests." And shortly before she died, she wrote "I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth."
	carmelnet.org /galleries/Therese/therese.htm (186 words)

	St. Therese of Lisieux
		Therese saw herself as 'the Little Flower of Jesus' because she was just like the simple wild flowers in forests and fields, unnoticed by the greater population, yet growing and giving glory to God.
		Therese entered the Lisieux Carmel at the age of fifteen.
		Therese's superior asked her to write down her reflections, which became the book, "Story of a Soul." She died at the age of twenty-four, believing that her life was really just beginning for God, resolving to spend her time in heaven doing good deeds on earth.
	conservation.catholic.org /st__therese.htm (1958 words)

	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.
		While Therese was indeed developing into a serious-minded girl, it does not appear that she became markedly sad.
	www.ewtn.com /therese/therese1.htm (707 words)

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