The "real" miracle on the Marne
Saint Therese Appears To French Soldiers On Battlefield! What Happened Next Changed History!
Watchman comments: I thought I knew WW1 military history until I saw the video below about Therese of Lisieux, France's modern day Joan d'Arc and the "miracle on the Marne".
Friends, I cannot explain these miracles by Therese of Lisieux, except to say that God is mysterious and I cannot begin to understand His mind. All I can say is that a loving God granted Therese her wish in heaven to spread goodness on Earth.
Also, as an aside, I find it interesting that except for Eve, no women "followers" betrayed Yeshua. Apparently the men, except for John and a few other men, ran and hid during and after Yeshua's crucifixion. It was a woman, Mary Magdalene was the first person to see Yeshua after he had risen, and the first he entrusted with the message of his Resurrection—even though Yeshua, for certain, knew the Jewish culture considered a woman's word and testimony worthless.
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Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus had only been dead seventeen years (1897) when the Great War started. But she was already handing out roses all over the battlefield. Amidst the blood, terror, and utter desolation of that brutal with the jaws of death.
This is how
the battle of Marne became the "Miracle of the Marne"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUntX0BqS8
6 FACTS ABOUT ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
October 1st, is the feast day of St. Therese of
Lisieux also known as St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face who is a patroness of missions
and missionaries, aviators, florists, and all who suffer the loss of their
parents.
Let's get to know more about St. Therese with
these 6 facts about her:
1. St. Therese had OCD and many symptoms of
depression
-It is a well-known fact that St. Therese had
scruples, which are most basically described as a form of religious OCD. Fear
that her sins had offended God or that she had committed a mortal sin plagued
her at different times in her life. A childhood that included the death of her mother at a very young age,
the loss of her sister, her ‘second mother’ Pauline, to the Carmelites, harsh bullying at school and an
extremely sensitive nature, meant that she displayed many of the symptoms of
depression even at a young age.
Her extreme physical suffering of tuberculosis at the end of
her life also caused her the temptations of despair and the wish that her life
could end due to the pain she was in. Yet she constantly turned back to Christ, and kept firmly in the right way.
2. Her mother and father became the first married
couple to be canonized as saints.
-Louis and Zelie Martin, who died in 1894 and 1887
respectively, had nine children, four of whom died at a young age, while the
other five all became nuns. The youngest, who became known as Therese of Lisieux, was reportedly
described by Pope Pius X as "the greatest saint of modern times".
3. She is also referred to as 'the little flower'.
-St. Therese loved nature, and often used the
imagery of nature to explain how the Divine Presence is everywhere, and how
everything is connected in God’s loving care and arms. Therese saw herself as
“the Little Flower of Jesus” because she was just like the simple wild flowers
in forests and fields, unnoticed by the greater population, yet growing and
giving glory to God. Therese did not see herself as a brilliant rose or an
elegant lily, simply as a small wildflower. This is how she understood herself
before the Lord – simple and hidden, but blooming where God had planted her.
Therese believed passionately that Jesus was
delighted in his “Little Flower,” and just as a child can be fascinated by the
grandeur of a simple flower, she believed that Jesus was fascinated by her as
his “Little Flower.” Therese understood that she was just like the tiny flower
in the forest, surviving and flourishing through all the seasons of the year.
Because of God’s grace, she knew that she was stronger than she looked. Following the Carmelite
tradition, Therese saw the world as God’s garden, and each person being a
different kind of flower, enhancing the variety and beauty which Jesus
delighted in. When various people tried to explain her powerful inspiration and
her place within the Church, it always seemed to come back to one title “the
Little Flower.”
4. She was cured from a mysterious illness.
During the Easter vacation in 1883, when
Therese was ten years old, she was attacked by a mysterious illness. Her
symptoms included trembling and frequent hallucinations. She could not be left
alone, and her doctor was baffled. Her father began to be afraid that she was
going to die.
As Therese recounts, her father gave Marie some
gold pieces and asked her to write to the shrine of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in
Paris, a place of renewal for the French church and a sanctuary dear to him and
to Zelie, to ask for a novena of Masses to be offered for Therese's cure.
During this novena of Masses, on Pentecost Sunday, May 13, 1883, Therese was suddenly cured.
Marie had gone out into the garden, leaving Therese with Leonie, who was
reading near the window. Therese began to call for "Maman," meaning
Marie. But when Marie came back into the room, Therese did not recognize her;
she was in the midst of the worst attack of her whole illness. Marie testified
that she wanted to give Therese something to drink, but Therese "screamed
in terror: 'They want to poison me." Marie knelt by the bed with Celine
and Leonie, praying fervently before the statue they later called the "Virgin
of the Smile." Therese, from the bed, also turned toward the statue and
prayed fervently. Suddenly Marie saw Therese's face grow calm and her eyes
clear. She understood that Therese had seen the Blessed Virgin herself. The
vision lasted four or five minutes. Therese described it: All of a sudden the
Blessed Virgin appeared beautiful to me, so beautiful that never had I seen
anything so attractive; her face was suffused with an ineffable benevolence and
tenderness, but what penetrated to the very depths of my soul was the ravishing
smile of the Blessed Virgin.
5. She is the youngest Doctor of the Church.
-During her life Thérèse discovered “new lights,
hidden and mysterious meanings” and received from the divine Teacher that
“science of love” which she then expressed with particular originality in her
writings. This science is the luminous expression of her knowledge of the
mystery of the kingdom and of her personal experience of grace. It can be
considered a special charism of Gospel wisdom which Thérèse, like other saints
and teachers of faith, attained in prayer.
In the writings of Thérèse of Lisieux we do not
find perhaps, as in other Doctors, a scholarly presentation of the things of
God, but we can discern an enlightened witness of faith which, while accepting
with trusting love God’s merciful condescension and salvation in Christ.
Thus we can rightly recognize in the Saint of
Lisieux the charisma of a Doctor of the Church, because of the gift of the Holy Spirit she received for
living and expressing her experience of faith.
6. She was a Carmelite nun.
-She went to Rome to ask the Pope personally to
allow her to enter Carmel under the age required. At the early age of 15, she
became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the cloistered Carmelite
community of Lisieux,
Normandy yet another sister, Celine, also later joined the order. Therese died at the age of 24
from tuberculosis.
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