Our Patroness

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, in Alencon, France, on January 2, 1873, and baptized shortly after at the Basilica of Notre-Dame d’Alencon, was a French Carmelite nun who died at the age of 24 on September 30, 1897. Her religious name was Sr. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, but after her death she became known as “The Little Flower of Jesus” or simply “The Little Flower”.