Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus

Date: 1 October

Preference: Virgin and Doctor of the Church - Feast

Thérèse Martin was born at Alencon in France in 1873. While still young she entered the Carmel of Lisieux, where she lived in the greatest humility, evangelical simplicity and confidence in God. By her words and example she taught the novices these same virtues. Offering her life for the salvation of souls and the spread of the Church, she died on September 30, 1897.