St. Thérèse and “The Science of Love”

Lauded as the “Greatest Saint of Modern Times” by the great Saint Pius X, and honoured as a Doctor of the Church despite having spent most of her twenty-four years on this earth in the small Norman town of Lisieux, Saint Thérèse persists as one of the most well loved saints of the past two centuries. Her zealous and devout cult, eminent holiness and impact on the spiritual life of the faithful, combined with her patronage of missionaries and missions, leaves much to wonder at how this French nun, who didn’t even live to see twenty-five, remains one of the most significant Saints of the modern age, and the pioneer of the “Science of Love” (as Saint John Paul II says). So what was so special about this little one, and what is meant by her Little way, and her Science of Love?