Coffin plate? Casket plate?

[oldbattleaxe]

Found this in a box at a yard sale. It measures 3"x4" and is looks to be copper. What is it?

 

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[oldbattleaxe]

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[relichunters]

Therese Martin was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zelie Martin on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France. However, only five of these children lived to reach adulthood. Precocious and sensitive, Therese needed much attention. Her mother died when she was 4 years old. As a result, her father and sisters babied young Therese. She had a spirit that wanted everything.

St Therese, age 14 At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and sensitive spirit were turned toward love, instead of keeping herself happy. At 15, she entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux to give her whole life to God. She took the religious name Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. Living a hidden, simple life of prayer, she was gifted with great intimacy with God. Through sickness and dark nights of doubt and fear, she remained faithful to God, rooted in His merciful love. After a long struggle with tuberculosis, she died on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24. Her last words were the story of her life: "My God, I love You!"

The world came to know Therese through her autobiography, "Story of a Soul". She described her life as a "little way of spiritual childhood." She lived each day with an unshakable confidence in God's love. "What matters in life," she wrote, "is not great deeds, but great love." Therese lived and taught a spirituality of attending to everyone and everything well and with love. She believed that just as a child becomes enamored with what is before her, we should also have a childlike focus and totally attentive love. Therese's spirituality is of doing the ordinary, with extraordinary love.

Therese saw the seasons as reflecting the seasons of God's love affair with us. St Therese, age 23 She loved flowers and saw herself as the "little flower of Jesus," who gave glory to God by just being her beautiful little self among all the other flowers in God's garden. Because of this beautiful analogy, the title "little flower" remained with St. Therese.

Her inspiration and powerful presence from heaven touched many people very quickly. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925. Had she lived, she would have been only 52 years old when she was declared a Saint.
St Therese as a Saint

"My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death," she said. "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. Countless millions have been touched by her intercession and imitate her "little way." She has been acclaimed "the greatest saint of modern times." In 1997, Pope John Paul II declared St. Therese a Doctor of the Church - the only Doctor of his pontificate - in tribute to the powerful way her spirituality has influenced people all over the world.

The message of St. Therese is beautiful, inspiring, and simple. Please visit the areas in this section of the Web site to learn more about this wonderful Saint.

http://www.littleflower.org/abouttherese/learn/index.asp

 

[relichunters]

Here is a picture of a similar item.

 

[oldbattleaxe]

Thank you for the post. That was touching. Would it be a coffin plate? It looks like it had a silver coating at one time. Bits of silver shows in areas. Bill

 

[relichunters]

I have no idea, if it was a coffin plate, who knows it might have been from hers. Hopefully someone will be able to ID the use of it soon. If you can post the exact lettering it says on it, it'd help in finding out. I can't read the top part very well.

 

[oldbattleaxe]

The top says I WILL SPEND MY HEAVEN DOING GOOD UPON EARTH Bottom SAINT TERESA THE LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS

 

[warsawdaddy]

If you would email the pics to ST Theresa's Academy in K.C,MO they could give you some insight.

http://www.stteresasacademy.org/contact.aspx