Although her short life was spent in obscurity, she would shine out, after her death at the age of twenty-four, as “the greatest saint of modern times” (Pope Pius XXI). She entered the Carmelite Convent in Lisieux at the age of fifteen, having received special permission to do so, being underage. She took the name in the religion of ‘Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face of Jesus’. She lived for nine years as a religious. She sums up her path to God as, ‘all confidence and love’. The simplicity of her life gives her universal appeal. She was inscribed among the doctors of the Church in 1997 by St John Paul II. She is the Patron Saint of the Foreign Missions.