PCP is thrilled to offer Fr. Albert Dolan’s unique collection of 8 articles originally printed under the title of Collected Little Flower Works.  Each section deals with the spiritual journey of the Little Flower, either as the saint saw herself in the eyes of God, or as she was intimately known by her parents, four sibling sisters, fellow religious, childhood friends and others whose lives she touched after her death.

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In order to compose this work, Fr. Dolan traveled in 1924 to France: to Normandy’s Alencon, where St. Therese was born, to her family home in Buissonnets, to the Carmel at Lisieux, and to other French towns.

Then, he went to Rome, where he and Pope Pius XI had a mutually productive discussion of his apostolate to make the “Little Way” of the Little Flower better known in homes and monasteries in America.

At the Carmelite convent he was blessed by priceless interviews with St. Therese's three sisters (who were nuns there), and one of her teachers. At Caen, he visited a fourth sister, who had joined the Visitation Order.

In fact one-third of this book is dedicated to these precious recollections gathered from her living siblings, while one of the chapters is completely devoted to the Little Flower’s saintly mother, Zelie Martin (just beatified in October 2008 with her husband, Louis), who died when Therese was only 4 years old.