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"God protects all who trust in Him," writes St. Zélie Martin. Reflecting on what God had done "for me and my husband, I don't doubt that His Divine Providence watches over His children with special care."
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St. Zélie Martin and her sister Marie-Louise were raised in a strict family atmosphere. Reading the biography of the gentle St. Francis de Sales inspired Marie-Louise at age 29 to enter the Visitation monastery.
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The Servant of God Léonie Martin shared her memories of Sts. Louis and Zélie as she shaing those recollections during Thérèse’s beatification process. She said her parents “kept a very fervent practice of the Christian life in their marriage.”
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Writing from Paris while on a sales trip for St. Zélie’s lacemaking business, St. Louis Martin has tender words for his wife and the entire family in this touching letter.
"Our age is not radically different from nineteenth-century France. The Martins would have been aware of the anti-Christian and anti-marriage ideas current in the France of their day. In the intervening 150 years, such attitudes have only hardened... In canonizing Zélie and Louis Martin the Church places before us the ideal of strong Christian family life."
Louis Martin was born in Bordeaux, on August 22, 1823. While he was master-watchmaker in Alençon, he met Marie Azelie (Zelie) Guerin, a lace maker, born in Gandelain (St-Denis-sur-Sarthon), on December 23, 1831. They were married on July 13, 1858,and had nine children, including the future Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus. Model spouses, devoted parents, workers, attentive to the poor, always nourishing a missionary spirit, they found their strength and hope in regular attendance at Holy Mass and in a deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
Join us in this novena to Saints Louis and Zélie Martin
Do as I did: pray, and you will not be carried away by the current.
You live very close to Notre-Dame des Victoires. Well! Go there just once a day and say a Hail Mary to the Blessed Mother
She positively believed that the good Lord couldn't do anything to her if she was in her mother's arms
Our parents kept a very fervent practice of the Christian life in their marriage
Do as I did: pray, and you will not be carried away by the current.
Saints Louis and Zélie, pray for us!
Thursday the wet nurse brought little Thérèse. She did nothing but laugh
You will rest in that blessed crypt… but please wait a little longer.
You mustn’t be discouraged, but have great confidence in God
Blessed is the lily that remains unblemished until the time of harvest
"My little girl was born last night. She'll be baptized tomorrow"
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired
Our parents were models of every virtue
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