Thérèse de Lisieux: Encyclopedia II - Thérèse de Lisieux - Recognition

Thérèse de Lisieux - Recognition

In 1902, the Polish Carmelite priest Father Raphael Kalinowski (later Saint Raphael Kalinowski) translated her autobiography "Story of a Soul" into Polish.

Pope Pius X signed the decree for her canonization on June 10, 1914. Pope Benedict XV, in order to hasten the process, dispensed with the usual fifty-year process required between death and beatification. She was canonized in 1925 by Pope Pius XI, only 28 years after her death. Her feast day was celebrated on October 3 until the calendar revision of 1970, when it was moved to October 1.

Thérèse of Lisieux is the patron saint of AIDS sufferers, aviators, florists, illness, missions, and Russia (according to Roman Catholics; the Russian Orthodox Church officially recognizes neither her canonization nor her patronage). She is the secondary patroness of France (after Saint Joan of Arc). In 1927 she was made a patron saint for foreign missions. In the Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris Scientia ("The Science of Divine Love") of October 19, 1997, Pope John Paul II declared her one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Universal Church, one of only three women so named (the others being Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of the Infant Jesus) and Catherine of Siena). A movement is under way now to canonize her parents.

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