Her feast day is 1 October (3 October in the extraordinary form). After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices such as sacristan and assistant to the novice mistress, and having spent her last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died at aged 24, following a slow and painful fight against tuberculosis. Thérèse felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, she became a nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. Pope Pius X called her 'the greatest saint of modern times'. Together with Saint Francis of Assisi, she is one of the most popular saints in the history of the church. Thérèse 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'. She is popularly known as 'The Little Flower of Jesus' or simply 'The Little Flower'.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (French: Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic French Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times. It quickly became a publishing phenomenon however and Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus was canonised in 1925.

It was initially published with a limited audience in mind, the Carmelite convents and certain religious personalities, and just 2000 copies of the 475 page book were printed. The work of unifying these disparate manuscripts was carried out by Pauline, the sister of Thérèse. The book was a single volume formed from three distinct manuscripts – manuscripts of different length, written at different times, addressed to different people, and differing from one another in character. It was first published on September 30, 1898, a year to the day after her death from tuberculosis at the age of 24, on September 30, 1897. The Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Âme) is the autobiography of Thérèse of Lisieux, a French Discalced Carmelite nun, later recognized as a saint. Eucharist to the Sick, Homebound/Nursing Homes & Hospitalized.

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