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• What is the Missionary Rosebushes of Saint Therese?

  Since March of 1972, we have been blessed to continue the work of the Missionary Rosebushes of St. Thérèse begun by Miss Irene Farley here in Manchester , NH in November 1922.
   

  Miss Farley dreamed of becoming a religious Sister serving in Mission countries.  Her dream was dashed by acute pulmonary tuberculosis, despite her miraculous cure from it.  Inspired by a pamphlet received from the Carmel at Lisieux, she and some friends formed a soc iety to pray for the canonization of St. Thérèse, pray for priests worldwide and raise money for men attending seminary in Mission lands.

  
  The 1925 canonization of the Little Flower achieved one of those goals, while the other two are ongoing.  Thousands of seminarians have received assistance during the more than one hundred years of the organization’s existence.  We know of seventeen of those seminarians who have become Bishops and Archbishops in the Church.