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Therese later wrote: "While I listened I believed I was hearing my own story, so great was the resemblance between what Jesus had done for the little flower and little Thérèse". [37] To Therese, the flower seemed a symbol of herself, "seemed destined to live on in another soil more fertile than the tender moss where it had spent its first days."
The original and first National Shrine to St. Therese began at St. Cyril's Church in Chicago in 1923, as devotion to the Little Flower was growing. The shrine held novenas to St. Thérèse every Tuesday. Because of her great popularity, it was moved to the larger St. Clara's Church in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago.
Fabrice Maze, The Basilica of St. Therese of Lisieux, PubliAlp, Grenoble, ISBN 2-9522339-0-X; Jean-Daniel Jolly Monge, The Mystery of Lisieux, Office Central de Lisieux, Lisieux, 2001. ISBN 2-9517460-0-8; How to become a saint – the story of Saint Therese of Lisieux
First class relics of Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, were exposed October 18, 2015 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower for public veneration for the first time on the day of the couple's canonization in Rome by the Catholic Church.
Rhoda Wise was born Rhoda Greer on February 22, 1888, in Cadiz, Ohio, to bricklayer Eli Greer and his wife Anna, the sixth of their eight children.When she was two years old, the Greer family moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where she was raised as a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), also known as the First Christian Church.
“The cult of Little Thérèse has from the first been a mass movement." [7] In the first chapter, Görres explores the widespread fascination with St. Thérèse following her death in 1897. Görres presents the paradox that St. Thérèse never “did anything that struck her contemporaries as extraordinary” yet was the subject of an ...
Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925, and her elder sister Léonie Martin, a Visitation Sister declared a Servant of God in 2015.
Therese of Lisieux OCD (French: Thérèse de Lisieux [teʁɛz də lizjø]; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), in religion 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.