“St Therese of Lisieux is my patron Saint. The white roses which I planted in front of her [her statue in the garden] flower almost all the year round.”
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Thérèse of Lisieux
Thérèse of Lisieux, religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy 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.
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culture · French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897) · theologian · playwright · writer · master of novices · missionary · nun · also Thérèse of Lisieux, Therese of Lisieux, Saint Therese of Lisieux, Therese Martin, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., Marie-Françoise-Therese Martin
Born 2 January 1873 · Died 30 September 1897 · Q181715
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2026· 3 entries
“a wall rising up as far as the heavens … when I sing of the happiness of Heaven, I feel no joy, because I am simply singing of what I WANT TO BELIEVE”
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ArchDaily: Galería de Capilla de Santa Teresa de Lisieux / Bull O’Sullivan Architecture - 12
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2025· 3 entries
Asia News: The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux on a peace mission in Lebanon at a time of war
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UCA News: Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), a mystic for our time
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TV Guide: Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux - Full Cast & Crew
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2024· 1 entry
National Catholic Reporter: Blessed are the brats: Thérèse of Lisieux flips entitlement on its head
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2023· 5 entries
Asia News: The Apostolic Exhortation devoted to Thérèse of Lisieux: confidence in mercy, synthesis of the Gospel
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America Magazine: Pope Francis publishes new apostolic exhortation on St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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National Catholic Reporter: Pope plans to write document dedicated to St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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National Catholic Register: St. Thérèse of Lisieux Was Destined to Be a Teacher of Souls
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National Catholic Register: Happy Birthday, St. Thérèse of Lisieux! Celebrating 150 Years of the ‘Little Flower’
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2022· 1 entry
Official commemoration of the life of Therese was added to the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States, with a feast day on 1 October
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2016· 2 entries
Crux: Discovering the meaning of Christmas with St. Therese of Lisieux
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The Christian Century: St. Therese of Lisieux
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2013· 1 entry
Grégoire set some of the poems of Therese to music in an album called Thérèse – Vivre d'amour, with collaborating artists Natasha St-Pier, Anggun, Michael Lonsdale, Grégory Turpin, Les Stentors, Sonia Lacen, Elisa Tovati
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2011· 1 entry
The letters of Blessed Zélie and Louis Martin were published in English as A Call to a Deeper Love: The Family Correspondence of the Parents of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, 1863–1885
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2010· 1 entry
Boston College: Carmelite Authors 101: St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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2009· 1 entry
Independent.ie: Thérèse of Lisieux: a real saint... or a suitable case for treatment?
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2008· 1 entry
Took a relic of Saint Therese with him, which had been given to him by the Carmelites of New Caney, Texas
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2004· 1 entry
The Archbishop of Milan accepted the unexpected cure of Pietro Schiliro, an Italian child born near Milan in 2002 with a lung disorder, as a miracle attributable to their intercession
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1997· 2 entries
Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church
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Her relics finally visited England and Wales in late September and early October 2009, including an overnight stop at the Anglican York Minster on her feast day, 1 October
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1987· 1 entry
With 6 César Awards including the César Award for Best Film
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1973· 1 entry
Brazilian composer José Antônio de Almeida Prado composed the oratorio Thérèse, l'Amour de Dieu, for speakers, soloists, chorus and orchestra, based on texts by Therese organized by Henri Doublier
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1969· 2 entries
Shortly before his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy
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42 years later, Pope Paul VI moved it to 1 October, the day after her dies natalis (birthday to heaven)
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1959· 1 entry
All the photographs she had taken of Therese in the Carmel were released unedited, finally showing Therese's "real face"
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1952· 1 entry
Wrote a play called Breaking the statue, telling the story of Therese
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1944· 1 entry
Pope Pius XII decreed her a co-patroness of France with Joan of Arc
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1941· 1 entry
In Caen, where her tomb in the crypt of the Visitation Monastery may be visited by the public
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1937· 1 entry
By Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII
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1933· 1 entry
By Gabriel Martin, a priest in the diocese of Luçon (France) and Béatrix Douillard
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1927· 1 entry
Pope Pius XI named Saint Therese co-patroness of the missions, with Saint Francis Xavier
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1926· 1 entry
The first liturgical feast of Therese of Lisieux, she appeared to her three times, telling her that she would not die, that she would live and that she would continue her mission through foundations throughout the world
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1923· 1 entry
Her veneration was authorized, making it possible for the Carmel of Lisieux to sell statues of Therese to churches and individuals
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1922· 1 entry
The singer – at the time, an unknown seven-year-old girl – was cured from blindness after a pilgrimage to the grave of Therese, who at the time was not yet formally canonized
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1912· 1 entry
And called Thérèse aux roses ("Therese with roses")
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1902· 1 entry
The Polish Carmelite Father Raphael Kalinowski translated her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, into Polish
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1899· 1 entry
To the convent of the Visitation in Caen
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1897· 3 entries
Died 1897-09-30.
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“I am not dying; I am entering life.”
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“... my way is entirely one of trust and love ...”
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1896· 1 entry
Went to bed on the eve of Good Friday and felt a joyous sensation
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1895· 2 entries
Therese expressed the notion that by the divine union of love, the soul takes on the semblance of Christ
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Is a memoir of her childhood, written under obedience to the Prioress, Mother Agnes of Jesus, her older sister Pauline
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1894· 1 entry
Obtained permission to bring her photographic equipment with her and to take pictures
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1891· 1 entry
Experienced, "great inner trials of all kinds, even wondering sometimes whether heaven existed"
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1888· 1 entry
At age 15, she became a nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux in Normandy (another sister, Céline, also later joined the order)
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1874· 1 entry
Began the long series of terms as prioress"
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-01-02.
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1870· 1 entry
– directed 300 men for two weeks as they climbed about fastening lamps to St
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1869· 1 entry
“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.”
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1861· 1 entry
Marie-Pauline (September 7, 1861, a Carmelite in Lisieux, in religion Mother Agnes of Jesus, d.
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1849· 1 entry
“s response to the heavenly voices calling her to battle, the second about her resulting martyrdom. 1894 brought a national celebration of Joan of Arc. On 27 January, Leo XIII authorized the introduction of her cause of beatification, declaring Joan, the shepherdess from Lorraine venerable. Therese used Henri-Alexandre Wallon”
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1841· 1 entry
Jules Michelet devoted the major part of the fifth volume of his History of France to a favourable presentation of the epic of Joan of Arc
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1838· 2 entries
Two nuns from the Carmel at Poitiers had been sent out to found the convent of Lisieux
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The Carmel of Lisieux in 1888 had 26 nuns, from very different classes and backgrounds
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