FREE WALLPAPERS
St. Thérèse, for your lock screen
Six wallpapers from the Little Way app — the portrait of Thérèse, the rose garden, the chapel at night. Each one is composed for a phone, so the clock falls in the dark and not across her face.
Free. No email, no account, no watermark.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
The portrait of Thérèse from the app, holding roses and a crucifix against the gold of her halo. The dark above her is left open, so the clock rests in shadow rather than across her face.
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The Chapel
A side altar at night — candles lit, a stained-glass window above, and no one there. The place a prayer goes when no one is watching it happen.
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The Rose Garden
A wrought-iron gate standing open onto a cloister, roses climbing the wall and falling across the stones. The garden is not locked.
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A Shower of Roses
Petals falling out of a gold light. Thérèse is remembered as promising that after her death she would let fall a shower of roses — the image the whole app is named for.
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The Little Flower
A single wild rose in a misted field, no larger than the ones around it. She called herself the little flower — not the rarest in the garden, only one God chose to look at.
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The Quiet Cross
A stone altar in an empty church, one shaft of light across it, a rose laid at the foot of the cross. For anyone who wants something still on their screen.
DownloadWhy a saint on your lock screen
You look at your lock screen something like a hundred times a day. Most of what is on it is asking you for something — a badge, a notification, a red dot. A wallpaper is the one part of the screen that asks you for nothing.
Thérèse of Lisieux spent her whole adult life inside one Carmelite convent in Normandy and died at twenty-four, and the Church made her the patroness of every missionary on earth — someone who reached the world without leaving her room. That is a strange and useful thing to be reminded of by a phone.
I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth. St. Thérèse of Lisieux, quoted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 956
You do not have to do anything with the reminder. Put her there and forget about her, and she will still be there at the end of the day.
How to set one as your lock screen
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Save the image
Tap Download on the wallpaper you want. On iPhone, press and hold the image, then choose Save to Photos.
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Open Wallpaper settings
Go to Settings, then Wallpaper, then Add New Wallpaper.
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Choose it from Photos
Tap Photos, pick the wallpaper you just saved, and position it. Each one is already sized so the clock falls in the quiet part of the image.
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Set it
Tap Add, then choose whether to use it for the Lock Screen, the Home Screen, or both.
Questions
Are these wallpapers free?
Yes. All six are free to download and use on your own phone. There is no account, no email required, and no watermark.
What size are they?
Each wallpaper is 1290×2796 pixels, which is the full lock screen resolution of the iPhone Pro. They will still look right on smaller iPhones and on most Android phones, which will crop slightly from the sides.
Will the clock cover her face?
No. Each image was composed for a phone rather than cropped down to fit one, so the top of the screen — where the clock and date sit — is left dark and open.
Can I use these on Android?
Yes. Save the image, then open your phone's Wallpaper settings and choose it from your gallery. Android will crop a little from the left and right edges.
Where does the artwork come from?
These are original artworks made for the Little Way app — the same ones you see on its home screen and in its chapel. They are not photographs of St. Thérèse. The only surviving photographs of her were taken by her sister Céline at the Carmel of Lisieux and are held by the Carmel there.
The art comes from somewhere
These are the paintings you meet inside Little Way — a free app for praying in the spirit of St. Thérèse: a daily rhythm, a rosary, and a chapel where strangers pray for each other by name.
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