Lisieux france

Heading to Normandy for a road trip, then catch our 14 go-to locations. Tempted by Caen, Rouen, Giverny, Honfleur, Alençon, Beuvron-en-Auge or La Route du Cidre?

Visiting the Saint Therese Basilica in Lisiuex, Normandy, France. The Basilique Saint-Therese is the second-most pilgramiged site in France! Colorful, sprawling, majestic.

This sacred town in Normandy’s Calvados department hardly needs introduction for Catholics as it’s France’s second pilgrimage site behind Lourdes. The 19th-century Saint Thérèse spent nearly all her life in ... Read more

Sainte-Therese Basilica in Lisieux

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""There is but one thing for us to do in the night of this life and that is to love, to love Jesus with all the energy of our heart and to save souls so that He may be loved by them. O let us cause Jesus to be loved by men!" – St Thérèse of Lisieux., whose feast is today, my sermon for today can be read here. Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus entered this Carmelite monastery in Lisieux in 1888 at the unusually young age of 15. This statue of the saint stands outside to welcome the many…

Lisieux in the lower part of Normandy is a very small city (or big town) that has very deep religious roots. With an enormous basilica and cathedral, this 22,000 inhabitants strong city has a very large Carmelite nun population.

Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called her the 'Little Flower', and found in her short life more inspiration for their own lives than in volumes by theologians. Yet Therese died when she was 24, after having lived as cloistered Carmelite for less than ten years. She never ...

The Crypt in the Lisieux Basilica