Father Dan Reehil
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She's probably one of the most famous saints in the church.
You go in any churches, Jesus and Mary statue, and then Therese in most churches.
Maybe Anthony is another one.
She never left the convent.
She was cloistered for the 10 years she was a nun.
She never went on missions.
She never did anything heroic.
She never started a religious order.
She didn't do anything heroic or big.
What did she do?
She practiced what she called the little way.
She did small things with tremendous love.
and all offering them for Jesus.
And she wrote down her daily experiences in her journal.
And after she died, that journal got published into a book called The Story of a Soul.
And now she's one of the most famous saints in the world.
She's also a doctor of the church.
There's only four who are women.
She's one of them.
And she's the patron saint of missionaries, because she always wanted to be missioned out to China.