Little Flower

St. Therese of Lisieux was known as the Little Flower of Jesus. Born in 1873 to devout parents and a very religious family, she decided at the age of 15 that she was going to enter a Carmelite Monastery.

Also known as the Carmelite of Lisieux, Little Flower of Jesus was born at Alencon, France, on 2nd January, 1873 and died at Lisieux on 30th September, 1897. She was born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin but took the religious name of Sister Therese of the Child Jesus. But she is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus", or simply "The Little Flower.”

Therese was not yet fifteen when she approached the Carmelite authorities again for permission to enter. Again she was refused.

But after entering the convent she called herself "God's Little Flower" and lived a cloistered life of obscurity in the convent of Lisieux, France.

The young Carmelite of Lisieux had the genius to make use of the texts, documents, images and objects of her time. The Little Flower Prayerbook is a vintage manual of prayers combined with a treasury of St. Therese's spiritual writings.

This Doctor of the Church was canonized on 17^th May, 1925 and her feast day is on 1^st October.