Saint Theresa of Infant Jesus

THERESA MARTIN is a personality worth knowing

She tells us in har autobiography entitled “ Story of a soul”

That since her childhood she was deeply in need of total trust in God.
Quite young she entered the carmelite order of Lisieux not without many hard trials to overcome. With tears in her eyes she tells her extraordinary encounter with the Mother of Jesus who , while she was seriously ill, gave life with her very presence to the statue of “ Our Lady of the Victories” not at all big or precious wich stood on a little column on the corner of her room, the Mother of Jesus who sweetly embraced her and overwhel-med her with peace, confidence and soon cured her of any evil as well.
 But the little Theresa had still to learn from the Mother of Jesus how to lessen and become unimportant through a simple but fearless bearing.

Like Mary- Sister Genevieve of the Holy countenance says- her big remedy was silence.
She loved “to keep every thing in her hart” joys and sorrows; that discretion was her strength, the starting point for perfection as well as her externat distinctive mark becouse it was grat in deliberation.
She is universally known as Saint Theresa of Infant Jesus and has been recently proclamied Doctor of the Church by the Pope.