Saint Therese of the Child Jesus And Miracles With French Soldiers In WW1, Dec. 29, 2023

 

Therese of Lisieux comforts a French soldier in WW1

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.