Tag: Who was Thérèse of Lisieux?

St Thérèse (1873 – 1897) was born into a devout Catholic family at Alencon, France. She is also known as Therese of the Child Jesus, the Holy Face and the Little Flower. St Thérèse yearned to become a nun and at the age of 15, joined her two elder sisters in the Carmelite community of…