She became a Carmelite nun and spent the rest of her short life in that monastery until her death from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. Thérèse recognized God’s call to religious life when she was still a teenager, and she entered the Carmelite monastery of Lisieux when she was only fifteen years old. Her mother died of breast cancer when she was only four years old, but she was raised by her loving father and four older sisters. Thérèse was born in 1873 in Alençon, France, into a middle class, devout family. If a given Catholic church has any statues of saints at all, Saint Thérèse is probably depicted by one of those statues.īecause of Thérèse’s popularity, most Catholics know the basic outlines of her life story.
Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin, the Little Flower, Doctor of the Church-whatever you call her, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux is one of the most popular Catholic saints in the world.
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