Oh! how happy I would be if my Master also wanted me to pour out my blood for Him! But what I ask of Him especially is that martyrdom of love that consumed my holy Mother Teresa, whom the Church proclaims a “victim of charity”; and since the Truth has said that the greatest proof of love is to give one’s life for one’s beloved, I am giving Him mine; it has been His for a long time, so He can do with it whatever He wishes, and if I am not a martyr by blood, I want to be one by love!   St. Elizabeth of the Trinity   Letter 287 to her mother, 19 June 1906