Article: The love of Saint Therese.

Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), born Marie Francoise Therese Martin, also known as St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, popularly named the Little Flower, doctor of the Church and patron of a score of causes ranging from AIDS victims to Spanish air crews, famously acclaimed by Pope Pius X as "the greatest saint of modern times," never hesitated to rush in where angels fear to tread. One thinks in particular of her audience with Pope Leo XIII in late November 1887. The fourteen-year-old schoolgirl--ten years away from death and only thirty-eight from canonization--knelt before the pontiff, majestically arrayed on a white armchair attended by palace guards and ...

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