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Therese Neumann (1898-1962), the great stigmatist
saint from Germany, who spent most of her life bed-ridden but sharing her
fathomless joy and inspiration to the millions who came to see her.
She
abstained from any food or liquid (except for one small consecrated wafer
a day) after she received a miraculous healing from paralysis after
praying to St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Her total
fast lasted from the age of twenty-five until her passing away,
thirty-nine years later.
Her name comes from the Greek therizein, "to harvest."
  
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