Word: lisieux
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...poor peddler and tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925, the canonization day of St. Therese of Lisieux (''Little Flower"), Fraulein Neumann regained her sight. Eight days later she called for the priest of Konnersreuth. When he arrived she arose and walked. Later in the year she was taken ill with what a doctor diagnosed as purulent appendicitis. Against his protests she went to church, was well...
...Little Flower's shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there...
Some 40 years ago there lived with the Carmelite Sisters at Lisieux, France, a young girl, so young that only months of pleading gained her admittance to the sisterhood. In 1897 she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24, unknown. But she had written a simple autobiography of her spiritual life, and, presently, the name of Sister Therese was known to the hearts of men everywhere. In spiritual unison millions called her "The Little Flower of Jesus" for the incomparable beauty of her faith. In 1923 she was beatified; in 1925, canonized...
...shrine of "The Little Flower of Jesus," at Lisieux, has gone many a pil grim. Soldiers who whispered her name at the Marne or Verdun have covered her shrine with their medals and swords. A few years ago the shrine was visited by Mrs. Edward C. Post, 56, rich Newport relative of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who had lived much in France since her husband died. Deaf when she arrived, Mrs. Post left cured...
...Magdalen-Sophy Barat (1779-1865), foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart; St. Mary Magdalen Postel (1756-1846), foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of Christian Schools; St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), who "saved for the Church of Rome the Catholic Germany of today"; St. Therese de Lisieux, the "Little Flower" Carmelite nun who became a bride of Christ when she was only 15, died when she was 24. At present there is only one U. S.-born candidate for sainthood. She, Ann Elizabeth Seton, was born in Manhattan in 1774 of Protestant parents. Traveling in Italy she felt...