The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Overview

St. Thérèse of Lisieux (2 January 1873 – 30 September, 1897), or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Carmelite nun. She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus"
She felt an early call to religious life, and, overcoming various obstacles, became a nun at 15. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, the last eighteen months spent in a night of faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. The impact of her posthumous publications, including her memoir The Story of a Soul, made her one of the greatest saints of the 20th century. Pope Pius XI called her the star of his pontificate; she was beatified in 1923, canonised in 1925, declared co-patron of the missions with Francis Xavier in 1927, and named co-patron of France with St. Joan of Arc in 1944. In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared her the thirty-third doctor of the Church, the only doctor of his long pontificate, the youngest doctor, only the third woman doctor. Devotion to Saint Thérèse has developed around the world.

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