We tend to shellac our saints, which is probably inevitable once we put them on a pedestal. It is not that they do not deserve the height; it is that, from down here, they are harder to see in their ...

I must admit, I have never held a deep devotion to St. Thérèse of Liseux. I have friends who have named children after her and others who planned important occasions to coincide with her feast day, ...

With this final installment of the series of the ways St. Thérèse answered prayers for her intercession and made that known by showering a rose or roses in different, and often unexpected and unusual ...

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 ...

Pope Francis uses incense to venerate an image of St. Thérèse of Lisieux during a prayer vigil in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 1, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — St.

Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux arrive today 25 June, at the Carmelite Convent in Benoni, Johannesburg, where they will be welcomed by the clergy of the ...

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries "are not only those who travel long distances, learn new languages, do good works, and are good at proclamation". Missionary is "is anyone who lives as an ...

The relics of Saint Therese will be at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak to honor her this week.