The Little Flower a doctor of the Church? How can this be? How has this young woman who lived a hidden life in an obscure Normandy town come to rank beside the great mystics Catheine of Siena and Teresa of Avila? Thérèse is not a mystic in the grand manner; she had no ecstasies or visions. But she is the mystic of everyday life and her ambition was to lead a multitude of souls to the merciful heart of God. This book tries to describe some of the ways in which Thérèse did this. ..