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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". [35] 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."
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.
The Shrine of the Little Flower honors Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, a Discalced Carmelite nun who died at the age of 24 in 1897. She’s the patron saint of florists, foreign missions, loss of ...
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.
The National Shrine of St. Therese in Darien, Illinois, is a Catholic shrine dedicated to Thérèse de Lisieux. It is a part of the Aylesford Carmelite campus run by the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary. It is supported and served by the Society of the Little Flower, a religious organization devoted to the saint.
Life of the Little Flower: (Saint Therese of the Child Jesus) (1926) The Living Sisters of the Little Flower (1926) An hour with the Little Flower : the Little Flower, a seraph of love (1926) The Little Flower's Mother (1927) Where the Little Flower Seems Nearest, a visit to the interior of the cloister of the famous Lisieux Carmel (1928)
In 1990, psychologist Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R., praised the book not only as an account of St. Thérèse but, in addition, he wrote, “One of the most outstanding biographies of a saint ever written is The Hidden Face, the life of Thérése of Lisieux, by Ida F. Goerres." [27]
Named in honor of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (who was known as "the Little Flower"), the church was first built in 1926 in a largely Protestant area. [2] [3] It was founded in 1925, a year before construction started. Within days of the church opening, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in front of the church. [4]