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St. Thérèse of Liseux
(1873 – 1897) was born in France. She entered the Carmelite
Order at the unusual young age of fifteen, due to her strong will and
precocious sense of her spiritual destiny.
Known as the "Little flower of Christ", she was a saint of
utmost simplicity and innocence. She died at twenty-four.
In obedience to her superior, she
wrote her autobiographical Story
of a Soul
which was published two years after her passing away.
She is one of only three women to
have been made Doctors of the Church, along
St. Teresa of Avila and
St. Catherine of Sienna. Her name comes
from the Greek therizein, "to harvest."
  
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