So loved as a child, a part of her remained ever the little girl, the puella, the incarnation of childlikeness, innocence, ...

Editor’s Note: This post was updated on Sept. 25, 2025, to reflect feast-day airings. St. Thérèse of Lisieux is one of the greatest and most loved saints in the Catholic Church. She is, in fact, a ...

A small community of young-adult women in Seattle under the patronage of St. Thérèse has brought life back into an old convent. Lisieux House ladies holding up a picture of St. Therese of Lisieux from ...

A relic of the young French Carmelite nun — known in the Catholic Church as “The Little Flower” — is coming to Redlands. The faithful can see the relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux at the El Carmelo ...

I was an Anglican priest the summer I met St. Therese of Lisieux. I was living in England and had three months free between jobs, so I decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. I was going to ...

On this feast day of my favorite saint (sorry Ignatius!) a reflection from My Life with the Saints, on Thérèse Martin. On January 2, 1873, Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin is born in Alençon, France, to ...

A mystic, really? Without a doubt she was the most famous saint in the 20th century, but a mystic? Traditionally, what is most striking with mystics is the presence of the extraordinary, the ...

The relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux are coming to Royal Oak, Michigan, as part of a national tour. Born in Alençon, France, in 1873, Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Monastery at Lisieux to ...