The Little Flower of Alabama

The spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower, is so profound and timeless that Pope St. John Paul II named her a doctor of the Church a 100 years after her death. The Little Flower inspired Catholics all over the world to adopt her spirituality of undertaking little acts with heroic love. Yet in 1945, in America’s Bible Belt, it was a young African-American Protestant whose life was transformed by the wisdom of a cloistered French nun.   More…