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Hey Sprouts, it's Danielle Kobosci of Fem Catholic, and today is Thursday, November 25th, 2021.

Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American listeners.

Today we get to talk about our fourth woman doctor of the church,

St. Cherez of Lassou, the Little Flower.

St. Chores' feast day is on October 1st,

and she was born in 1873 in France.

St. Cherez is the youngest of nine children,

but four of her siblings died as babies.

Her parents were very holy and loving,

and actually they are also saints,

St. Louis and Zelly Martin.

St. Trez's mom, St. Zellie, died when she was only

four years old, and St. Tres became very ill when she was ten, so much so that she

sometimes couldn't get out of bed for days. Terez was miraculously cured of this illness when a statue of Mary and her home

smiled at her. But she truly had a very hard childhood and struggled with being sad much of the

time. Trez's four older sisters who lived to adulthood all became nuns. She also wanted to become a nun, and a missionary,

and a martyr, or someone who dies for their faith from a very young age. And Trez begged to enter

the Carmelite monastery at just age 10, but the bishop said that she needed to wait until she was a

little bit older.

When she was 13, she had what she calls her Christmas conversion.

She wrote that she grew up in an instant and had a renewed desire to save the souls of

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