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Portrait of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

A cloistered Carmelite who died at twenty-four, unknown to the world — and became one of the Church's great teachers through her 'little way' of trusting love.

Feast: October 1 1873–1897 (24 years) Doctor of the Church
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Missions Florists France the Sick

Quotes & Sayings of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

  • “I will spend my heaven doing good upon earth.”
  • “What matters in life is not great deeds, but great love.”
  • “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word.”

    — Story of a Soul

  • “Everything is grace.”
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Portrait of St. Germaine Cousin

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A sickly shepherd girl despised by her own household, who slept under the stairs, prayed in the fields, and shared her scraps with beggars — and whom heaven, and eventually all of France, refused to overlook.

Portrait of St. Boniface

St. Boniface

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An English monk who walked away from a quiet life of books to spend forty years preaching in the German forests — felling a god's oak with an axe, building a church across half a continent, and dying with a book raised over his head.