Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: The Little Flower of Jesus: An autobiography with her letters, together with the story of her canonization, and an account of several of her heavenly roses

Faithful reprint, imprimatur 1926.After the Gospel of the Mass, Pope Pius preached on her whom he had already called a "miracle of virtues and a prodigy of miracles." It was a glowing tribute of praise. Scarcely had he finished, when in the presence of the vast audience there descended a token of thanks. The Saint had loved flowers passionately from childhood. They mirrored dimly her Divine Lover's beauty. In Carmel she loved chiefly the rose, queen of all flowers. She taught her novices to love it too, for was it not the emblem of divine charity, queen of all virtues? Plucking the rose-petals she would scatter them around her crucifix, images of the life she longed to sacrifice, every instant of it, for Christ her Beloved. On her death-bed she promised that she would spend her Heaven raining roses upon earth. How often since that prophecy has not their sweet odour betokened her mysterious presence to her clients! Indeed, one of the two Beatification miracles had been heralded by a shower of real roses, a great picture in St. Peter's reproducing the scene.— Part 1: The Canonization and after Read more