Today is the Feast Day of Saint Therese of Lisieux, one of my favorites, mostly because of her book. She is a great example of someone very much in love with Jesus, but so human too. I loved reading how she was so annoyed by the noises one of the nuns made during rosary. I felt so close to her after hearing that! See below:
Patron of the Missions
1873 - 1897
Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called her the "Little Flower", and found in her short life more inspiration for own lives than in volumes by theologians.
Yet Therese died when she was 24, after having lived as cloistered Carmelite for less than ten years. She never went on missions, never founded a religious order, never performed great works. The only book of hers, published after her death, was an brief edited version of her journal called "Story of a Soul." (Collections of her letters and restored versions of her journals have been published recently.) But within 28 years of her death, the public demand was so great that she was canonized
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