“Like the Prophets and Doctors, I would be a light unto souls; I would travel to every land to preach Thy name, O my Beloved, and raise on heathen soil the glorious standard of Thy Cross. One mission alone would not satisfy my longings. I would spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth, even to the most distant isles. I would be a missionary—not for a few years only, but, were it possible, from the beginning of the world till the consummation of time. Above all, I thirst for the martyr’s crown.”
--St. Thérèse of Lisieux