Anna of Jesus was born in Medina del Campo (Castile – Spain) on 25^th November 1545, died in Brussels on 4^th March 1621.

In 1570, she was received by St Teresa herself into the first monastery of the reform in Avila; in 1571, she followed Teresa to Salamanca, where on October 22^nd, 1571 she made her profession. Led by the saint to the foundation of Beas in Andalusia, under obedience she then had to go to Granada (1581) to open a monastery, the only one that, while St Teresa was living, was not founded by the Saint herself. There she obtained from St John of the Cross, who called her "seraphim" and appreciated her very much, the commentary on the Spiritual Canticle, dedicated by St John to Anna. In 1586 she founded a monastery in Madrid, where she worked a lot for the first edition of the works of St Teresa (1588), and where she had to support the first struggle to defend the spirit of St Teresa against the ideas of Doria and his Council. Punished, she then moved to Salamanca (1584), where she was elected prioress (1586). In 1604, with Bl. Anna of St Bartholomew and four other nuns, led by Peter Bérulle, she went to France where she founded the monasteries of Paris (1604), Pontoise and Dijon (1605). Some disagreements with Bérulle, who seemed to be giving the French Carmel an imprint that did not correspond to the Teresian ideal, and her  desire to be directed by the Discalced Carmelite friars, pushed Anna to accept the invitation of the archdukes of Belgium  to move to Flanders, where she founded the monasteries of Brussels, Leuven and Mons (1607). Back in Brussels, after a few years of great interior and physical suffering, she died there leaving a reputation of great holiness also proven by graces and miracles.

The cause of beatification was begun immediately after her death: after the ordinary processes were completed, the cause was introduced in Rome on 2^nd May, 1878, and on 2^nd May, 1885, the writings were approved, spiritual letters that revealed in them her deep interior life and extraordinary prudence.

The decree on her heroic virtue was promulgated on 28^th November, 2019.

Fr. Benignus of St Therese of the Child Jesus (Angelo Calvi), from the family and from the parish of the same name in Italy, had a strong and joyful education in the faith, founded on a great love for the Eucharist. At the age of 17, after thoughtful discernment, he felt called to the priesthood in the Teresian Carmel.

A novena to St. Therese of the Child Jesus allowed him to overcome insurmountable difficulties in resuming his studies. He became a convinced imitator of the Saint whose way of trusting abandonment in God, who is a Father, became characteristic of his life.

He spent the last months of his life in Concesa di Trezzo sull'Adda (MiIan) as deputy Master of novices. Here he was also asked to supply for the parish priest in the nearby parish, where his always smiling and limitless charity towards the sick, the poor, young people and families was a shining example.

He was only 28 when he died from a form of intestinal tumour. He offered his life for his religious Province which, due to a banking scam, ran the serious danger of being suppressed (eight monasteries, ten convents). A month after his death, everything turned out well.

The decree on his heroic virtue was promulgated on December 20, 2003.

Anita Cantieri was born in Lucca (Italy) on March 30, 1910. Her parents, Davino and Annunziata, were countrypeople of modest means; they had 12 children.

Shortly after her birth on April 3^rd, she was baptized; received the sacrament of confirmation on October 3^rd 1915 and her First Communion on 7^th of May 1916.

At the age of twelve, she decided to give herself completely to God, feeling the call to a religious vocation. On May 24, 1930 she entered on trial the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa in Campi Bisenzio (Florence).

She remained in the convent for 14 months, but had to leave in August 1931 because she suffered from physical ailments of an unspecified nature. A few years later she was welcomed into the Carmelite Secular Third Order, in which she took the name of Thérèse of the Child Jesus. Humble, silent, smiling, she tried to live her motto-program: «Love, suffer, be silent: all this is my life synthesized». In the last period of her life, even though reduced to  immobility by being confined to bed by her illness, Anita became the promoter and animator of numerous parish and apostolic initiatives.

She died on the 24^th of August, 1942.

The decree on her heroic virtue was promulgated on the 21^st of December, 1991.