ST. THERESE of LISIEUX- The Little Flower - Rosary - True Solid Bronze Center + Crucifix hot - Czech Glass Pearl Beads
INTRODUCING LITTLE GEMMA DESIGNS'
HANDCRAFTED ROSARY COLLECTION
~ + ~ ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX- ST. THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS- THE LITTLE FLOWER- CZECH GLASS PEARL ROSARY ~ + ~ TRUE SOLID BRONZE
Patron Saint of the Missions, HIV/AIDS sufferers, florists and gardeners, loss of parents, tuberculosis
We are excited to offer for your consideration this handcrafted, one-of-a-kind ST. THERESE ROSARY, an original and unique LITTLE GEMMA DESIGN* honoring one of our favorite Patron Saints (the LITTLE in our name is after her and her LITTLE Way, of course!), and we have dedicated our shop to her patronage (along with our other favorite saint--St. GEMMA Galgani).
This simple yet elegant Rosary was handcrafted with care, love and a prayer for the recipient. Our hope is that whoever prays upon it will be reminded of St. Therese with each bead and component that was carefully selected to honor her in the design. St. Therese said, "My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death." "I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses." Roses have been described and experienced as Saint Therese's signature and is thus reflected with the beautiful roses and other flowers found throughout the Rosary.
Not familiar with St. Therese? Well, you've come to the right place. Please scroll below to learn more about St. Therese of Lisieux.
*** PLEASE BE SURE TO ZOOM-IN ON THE PICTURES TO CAPTURE ITS BEAUTY! ***
ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION:
+++ This is a beaded-style, cable strung Rosary. It is not only our opinion, but independent tests have shown that this method of construction approaches the strength of a cord style Rosary and is roughly double the strength of simple wire loop and wire-wrapped constructed methods. Much research and time has gone into the design process of selecting the best materials to construct it. Professional Jewelers flexible wire is used, comprised of 49 strands of nylon coated micro stainless steel wire. The tensile strength of the wire is lab tested for 26 pounds. The flex-wire rosary is fluid in movement and has a lovely drape. The wire is super strong and is not easily broken in normal, everyday prayer use. You will be able to enjoy praying with this rosary for many years to come, especially if properly stored in a pouch and cared for.
The flex-style rosary offers the most creative expression in the individuality and uniqueness of the design by implementing beads of various colors, sizes, shapes and textures—which we love here at LITTLE GEMMA DESIGNS! We consider this stainless steel rope a blank canvas ready to become a beautiful little work of Sacramental Art inspired by the Holy Spirit. This Rosary has been prayerfully and lovingly created for a special someone--one of God's Little Gems.
Our goal is to create designs that suit every taste and budget, while giving visual Glory to God as a tangible reminder and inspiration to pray (and more often!). This particular Rosary style focuses the attention both visually and tactilely on the beads you pray upon, without the interruption of links and chains in-between as in the traditional style Rosary. No kinking issues, either!
+++ Double, high quality crimping beads have been used to secure the wire at every juncture to add to the rosary's overall strength.
+++ {Please note: Over time, the wire can stretch, giving slight movement to the beads. The stretch is usually minimal, and most people don't mind a slight play in the movement of the beads. If this would bother you, this Rosary style may not be the best choice for you. If you are particularly hard on your rosaries, and find that you tug on and twist the beads while praying, this also may not be the best design choice for you as the wire can fray over time {although not a common occurrence} and will eventually need to be re-strung. Again, if properly cared for, you will enjoy many years of daily use.}
ABOUT THE BEADS:
+++ This Rosary has been designed with approximately 8mm Creamy Alabaster Beige Luster Czech Glass beads (almost resembling creamy pearls) for the Aves (Hail Marys). The Paters (Our Fathers) feature beautifully detailed hand-cast Beadcaps highlighted by rosy pink crystal beads as well as lavender freshwater pearls. These beads are simply stunning and shimmer beautifully in the light.
ABOUT THE ROSARY CENTER:
+++ This Rosary features a beautifully hand-cast in the U.S.A. unique vintage replica ornate center with leaves and flowers featuring Saint Therese in True Solid Bronze (made of a blend of copper and tin). It measures approximately 1 3/4 inches.
ABOUT THE CRUCIFIX:
+++ This Rosary features a beautifully hand-cast in the U.S.A. vintage replica Large Rose Crucifix in True Solid Bronze (made of a blend of copper and tin). This crucifix has incredible detailing with 4 Large Roses at each end of the crucifix. It measures approximately 2 3/8 inches long.
OVERALL LENGTH OF THE ROSARY: approximately __ inches when pulled taught, from the bottom of the crucifix to the top
Our understated, little diamond-shaped brand tag is attached to the bottom of the rosary center to serve as a reminder that you are truly precious and treasured by God—God's Little Gem—unique and wonderfully made. The diamond is the most valuable and precious of gemstones, as well as the hardest and most brilliant, which is why we chose this particular gemstone to represent our brand and how it translates to our precious Faith. May your Faith be as strong as a diamond, and may you shine bright in this world of darkness, reflecting the Truth and Light of His Love.
+++ Your LITTLE GEMMA DESIGNS Rosary will arrive in a pouch… ready to gift or for safe keeping while not in use.
We are humbled and blessed to share our Rosary designs with you to help promote prayer, encourage the use of Sacramentals, and to embrace our precious Faith through our own creative expression. We consider LITTLE GEMMA DESIGNS' handiwork our LITTLE WAY of contributing to Our Lady's Armory, as the Rosary is one of our most powerful Spiritual Warfare Weapons available to us.
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We appreciate you visiting LITTLE GEMMA DESIGNS! GOD BLESS YOU!
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ST. THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS, PRAY FOR US!
MY NOVENA ROSE PRAYER
O Little Therese of the Child Jesus
Please pick for me a rose
from the heavenly garden
and send it to me
as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus,
ask God to grant the favors
I now place with confidence
in your hands
{Mention your special prayer request here}
St. Therese, help me to always believe
as you did, in God's great love for me,
so that I may imitate your "Little Way" each day.
-Amen
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ABOUT ST. THERESE AS QUOTED FROM VATICAN.VA...
The Life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
THÉRÈSE MARTIN was born at Alençon, France on 2 January 1873. Two days later, she was baptized Marie Frances Thérèse at Notre Dame Church. Her parents were Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin. After the death of her mother on 28 August 1877, Thérèse and her family moved to Lisieux.
Towards the end of 1879, she went to confession for the first time. On the Feast of Pentecost 1883, she received the singular grace of being healed from a serious illness through the intercession of Our Lady of Victories. Taught by the Benedictine Nuns of Lisieux and after an intense immediate preparation culminating in a vivid experience of intimate union with Christ, she received First Holy Communion on 8 May 1884. Some weeks later, on 14 June of the same year, she received the Sacrament of Confirmation, fully aware of accepting the gift of the Holy Spirit as a personal participation in the grace of Pentecost.
She wished to embrace the contemplative life, as her sisters Pauline and Marie had done in the Carmel of Lisieux, but was prevented from doing so by her young age. On a visit to Italy, after having visited the House of Loreto and the holy places of the Eternal City, during an audience granted by Pope Leo XIII to the pilgrims from Lisieux on 20 November 1887, she asked the Holy Father with childlike audacity to be able to enter the Carmel at the age of fifteen.
On 9 April 1888 she entered the Carmel of Lisieux. She received the habit on 10 January of the following year, and made her religious profession on 8 September 1890 on the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In Carmel she embraced the way of perfection outlined by the Foundress, Saint Teresa of Jesus, fulfilling with genuine fervour and fidelity the various community responsibilities entrusted to her. Her faith was tested by the sickness of her beloved father, Louis Martin, who died on 29 July 1894. Thérèse nevertheless grew in sanctity, enlightened by the Word of God and inspired by the Gospel to place love at the centre of everything. In her autobiographical manuscripts she left us not only her recollections of childhood and adolescence but also a portrait of her soul, the description of her most intimate experiences. She discovered the little way of spiritual childhood and taught it to the novices entrusted to her care. She considered it a special gift to receive the charge of accompanying two "missionary brothers" with prayer and sacrifice. Seized by the love of Christ, her only Spouse, she penetrated ever more deeply into the mystery of the Church and became increasingly aware of her apostolic and missionary vocation to draw everyone in her path.
On 9 June 1895, on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, she offered herself as a sacrificial victim to the merciful Love of God. At this time, she wrote her first autobiographical manuscript, which she presented to Mother Agnes for her birthday on 21 January 1896.
Several months later, on 3 April, in the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, she suffered a haemoptysis, the first sign of the illness which would lead to her death; she welcomed this event as a mysterious visitation of the Divine Spouse. From this point forward, she entered a trial of faith which would last until her death; she gives overwhelming testimony to this in her writings. In September, she completed Manuscript B; this text gives striking evidence of the spiritual maturity which she had attained, particularly the discovery of her vocation in the heart of the Church.
While her health declined and the time of trial continued, she began work in the month of June on Manuscript C, dedicated to Mother Marie de Gonzague. New graces led her to higher perfection and she discovered fresh insights for the diffusion of her message in the Church, for the benefit of souls who would follow her way. She was transferred to the infirmary on 8 July. Her sisters and other religious women collected her sayings. Meanwhile her hot sufferings and trials intensified. She accepted them with patience up to the moment of her death in the afternoon of 30 September 1897. "I am not dying, I am entering life", she wrote to her missionary spiritual brother, Father M. Bellier. Her final words, "My God..., I love you!", seal a life which was extinguished on earth at the age of twenty-four; thus began, as was her desire, a new phase of apostolic presence on behalf of souls in the Communion of Saints, in order to shower a rain of roses upon the world.
She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on 17 May 1925. The same Pope proclaimed her Universal Patron of the Missions, alongside Saint Francis Xavier, on 14 December 1927.
Her teaching and example of holiness has been received with great enthusiasm by all sectors of the faithful during this century, as well as by people outside the Catholic Church and outside Christianity.
On the occasion of the centenary of her death, many Episcopal Conferences have asked the Pope to declare her a Doctor of the Church, in view of the soundness of her spiritual wisdom inspired by the Gospel, the originality of her theological intuitions filled with sublime teaching, and the universal acceptance of her spiritual message, which has been welcomed throughout the world and spread by the translation of her works into over fifty languages.
Mindful of these requests, His Holiness Pope John Paul II asked the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which has competence in this area, in consultation with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with regard to her exalted teaching, to study the suitability of proclaiming her a Doctor of the Church.
On 24 August, at the close of the Eucharistic Celebration at the Twelfth World Youth Day in Paris, in the presence of hundreds of bishops and before an immense crowd of young people from the whole world, Pope John Paul II announced his intention to proclaim Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face a Doctor of the Universal Church on World Mission Sunday, 19 October 1997.
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*While Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, Please Do Not Copy this LITTLE GEMMA DESIGN.