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St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Carmelite, Virgin Doctor of the Church, Patron of the Missions
To save Souls
Thérèse Françoise Marie Martin Alençon was born on January 2, 1873 to a couple of jewelers and watchmakers.
They were deeply devout believers, “Worthy more of heaven than of Earth,” as Thérèse said of them.
Saint therese child of jesus biography
She was the last of eight children, three of whom died in childhood. Orphaned of her mother at the age of four, she relived the drama of abandonment as each of her four sisters in turn entered Carmelite life, though in return she received the particular affection of her father, who called her “Little Queen of France and Navarre”.
She entered the Carmel of Lisieux at the age of 15, by special permission of Pope Leo XIII, whom Thérèse himself had begged in Rome.
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