For more than 30 years, the Community of the Beatitudes has been hosting “rose petals” evenings dedicated to the French saint Thérèse de Lisieux (1873–1897). The concept is simple: Devotees write a ...

Her devotion to her favorite saint, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, led her to participate in a veneration of 250 relics at Holy ...

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 ...

When St. Thérèse, the Little Flower, was dying, she famously said, “After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses. I will spend my heaven doing good upon earth. I will raise up a mighty host of ...

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower will open its doors to venerate the relics of the beloved saint starting Oct. 31.

One of Pope Francis’ last gestures before undergoing abdominal surgery on Wednesday was to pray before a relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. A relic of the French Carmelite nun, also known as St. Thérèse ...

Marking 100 years since both the monastery’s founding and St. Thérèse’s canonization, the faithful gathered in song, prayer, ...

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. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME – Pope ...