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- Saint Therese was born in France in 1873 to pious Catholic parents. Her parents, Louis and Zelie Martin, are saints too!
- Her mother described Saint Therese as an “incredibly stubborn” child and spoke of her frequent tantrums. Therese describes a turning point on Christmas Day in 1886 when she had a “complete conversion.”
- Her mother died of breast cancer when Therese was only four years old, leaving her father and four older sisters to raise her.
- She received special permission from Pope Leo XIII to enter the Carmelite Monastery at 15 years old.
- She had blonde hair and blue eyes. Most photographs and statues depict Thérèse with dark brown hair, when, in fact, she had luscious blonde curls and blue eyes.
- Thérèse was canonized only five years after her favorite saint. Growing up, Thérèse had a special devotion to St. Joan of Arc — depicting her in plays and reading excessively about her.
- She had a pet dog named “Tom.” Thérèse recounts in her autobiography that she had a pet spaniel named Tom. You can see pictures of him in Thérèse of Lisieux by Pierre Descouvemont and Helmuth Nils Loose.
- “Thérèse” is not her first name. The Martin family named all their girls by the first name “Marie.” My speculation is that Louis and Zélie intentionally did this because of their great devotion to our Blessed Mother.
With special authorisation from Pope John Paul II, the process to declare Mother Teresa a Catholic saint began less than two years after her death.
Sep 30, 2024 · In 1997, a century after her death, Pope John Paul II declared St. Thérèse a Doctor of the Church, making her one of the youngest individuals ever to receive this title. She became only the third woman in history to be honored in this way, following St. Teresa of Ávila and St. Catherine of Siena.
Overview of Therese's life. Short biography of Therese from the Vatican Web site. Detailed chronology. from Therese2002, the Australian Carmelite site. Online photo album - photos of Therese. Online biography of Therese offered by the Australian Carmelites.
When Therese stepped into the Carmel of Lisieux, she was entering a world steeped in tradition and spiritual rigor. The convent was a tapestry woven from threads of history, established by two nuns from the Poitiers Carmel back in 1838.
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This doctrine is derived from a re-discovery of the central teaching of the Gospel which may be expressed in this sentence: We are, in Christ, God's children and we ought to love our Father in heaven with a filial love full of confidence and abandonment. Christ taught us that God is our Father.
