19th-Century Christian Female Saints - Sojourner Truth, Therese of Lisieux, Queen Emma of Hawaii, Theodore Guerin, Elizabeth Ann Seton (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Sojourner Truth, Therese of Lisieux, Queen Emma of Hawaii, Theodore Guerin, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Julie Billiart, Amelia Bloomer, Catherine Booth, Rose Philippine Duchesne, Clelia Barbieri, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Paola Elisabetta Cerioli, Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier de Ages, Vincenza Gerosa, Magdalen of Canossa, Bartolomea Capitanio. Excerpt: Therese of Lisieux (2 January 1873 - 30 September 1897), or Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Francoise-Therese 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, in 1888 at the early age of 15, became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices such as sacristan and assistant to the novice mistress, and having spent the last eighteen months in Carmel 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, was great, and she rapidly became one of the most popular saints of the twentieth century. Pope Pius XI made her the "star of his pontificate." She was beatified in 1923, and canonized in 1925. The speed of this process may be seen by comparison with that applied to a great heroine of Therese, Joan of Arc, who died in 1431 but was not canonized until 1920. Therese was declared co-patron of the missions with Francis Xavier in 1927, and named co-patron of France with Joan of Arc in 1944. On 19 October 1997 Pope John Paul II declared her the thirty-third Doctor of the Church, the youngest person, and only the third woman, to be so honored. Devotion to Therese has developed around the world. Therese lived a hidden life...