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Born on January 2, 1873 in Alencon, France. She had four sisters and two brothers. As a child, Therese was, according to her mother "incredibly stubborn. When she has said 'no', nothing will make her change her mind. One could put her in the cellar for the whole day." Her mother was Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin and her father was Louis Martin.

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“A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux
“Trust and trust alone should lead us to love”
― St Therese of Lisieux
“It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.”
― St. Therese of Lisieux

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At the age of 14, Therese had a conversation that transformed her life.  At 15, she entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux to give her whole life to God. She took the religious name Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.

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She loved flowers and saw herself as the "little flower of Jesus," who gave glory to God by just being her beautiful little self among all the other flowers in God's garden. Because of this she was known as ''The Little Flower''.

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She wrote her autobiography, "Story of a Soul". She lived each day with an unshakable confidence in God's love. "What matters in life," she wrote, "is not great deeds, but great love."

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After a long struggle with tuberculosis, she died on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24. Her last words were ''My God, I love you!'' She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925. Had she lived, she would have been only 52 years old when she was declared a Saint. "My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death," she said. "I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses."

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“For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.”
― St. Therese of Lisieux
“It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux
“I say nothing to him I love him”
― St. Thérèse of Lisieux