Every October, the Catholic Church pays homage to two Carmelite saints: Saint Teresa of Avila, the bold sixteenth-century Spanish reformer honoured on October 15, and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the humble French cloistered Carmelite known as the Little Flower, remembered on October 1.
Though they lived centuries apart, in different countries and embodied contrasting temperaments and experiences, these two women became spiritual titans and Doctors of the Church, living their lives in divine love and humility.
