Pentecost Sunday became a red-letter day twice in the life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and then once again during her cause for beatification. The first happened on Pentecost Sunday, May 13, 1883, when ...

Scenes from St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s beloved spiritual autobiography The Story of a Soul come alive when walking through the rooms of her childhood home in northern France. The red-brick home in ...

On this day in 1897, Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face died at the Carmel of Lisieux. "On September 30, coming through the broken words of Thérèse who was very restless in her bed, ...

On the 150th anniversary of the birth of the patron saint of missions, an exhibition in Paris tells the story of a “woman intellectual, seeker of meaning” with a section dedicated to her relations ...

Pope Francis has commended the “little greatness” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in a new message focusing on the 19th-century Carmelite’s relevance for the Church today. St. Thérèse’s “genius consists in ...

St. Thérèse, then aged 15, very eager to become a nun, had fixed her hair in a bun so she would look older. It was during an audience with the bishop of the Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux to ask his ...