St. Thérèse de Lisieux - French Carmelite
1897

Feastday - October 1

An actual photograph taken of St. Thérèse de Lisieux before she died.

She is now acclaimed as the most popular modern saint. "I feel that my mission is about to begin," she confided shortly before her death at twenty-four. "My mission is of making people love God as I love him, of teaching them my little way."

She was canonized by Pope Pius XI twenty-eight years after her death.