The Little Flower - The Story of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus

Tells the story of Therese Martin's life as the favoured youngest in a loving family, her determination to become a Carmelite nun at fifteen, her life as a nun, and her death at twenty-four. This book tells what happened to little Therese: It shows how Therese received a second mother when she lost her first mother, how she was teased at school, and how she was cured of being a 'cry baby'. It tells about her mysterious illness, her miraculous cure, her First Holy Communion, the terrible criminal whose soul she won back for God, and what she decided to do when she grew up. All in all, here is the wonderful true story of what happened when little Therese Martin set out to become a saint.

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