"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus . . . which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins." 2 Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is of great antiquity ...

To the Sacred Heart of our Lord, Jesus Christ, I give myself and I consecrate my person and my life, my actions, pains, and sufferings so that I may be unwill­ing to make use of any part of my being ...

For St. Teresa, holiness begins not in lofty thoughts but in daily conversation with the One who loves us most.

Beatified Sept. 6 in Veszprém, Hungary, the young factory worker gave her life resisting a Soviet soldier’s assault in 1945.