St Zelie Martin

St zelie martin In addition to raising five daughters who grew up to become nuns one who is canonized and one leonie on the road to canonization st.

St zelie martin. Between 1860 and 1873 nine children were born into the martin household four of whom died at an early age. We lived only for them zelie wrote. Within the next fifteen years zelie bore nine children seven girls and two boys. This couple both wanted to be religious but met each other and got married instead.

Louis martin 22 august 1823 29 july 1894 and marie azélie zélie guérin martin 23 december 1831 28 august 1877 were two married roman catholic french laypeople and the parents of five roman catholic nuns including thérèse of lisieux a carmelite nun who was canonized as a saint of the catholic church in 1925. When i first learned of the case for canonization of louis and zelie martin the parents of st. Between her letters to family members and her five daughters memories of her we have a few books that detail her inner thoughts and the activities that filled her daily life. As we can read in her correspondence.

Zélie experienced joy and grief with the births and deaths of these children. The pilot view all. Zélie martin is best know as the little flower s mother but she s also a legend in her own right. The quote is from st.

Louis also had several little ones they lost as infants or young children. Louis martin and zelie guerin eventually met in alencon and on july 13 1858 louis 34 and zelie 26 married and began their remarkable voyage through life. They were all our happiness. Best of week louis and zelie martin saints sophia excerpts st.

Therese of lisieux i was very intrigued. I love children so much i was born to have them then after the birth of thérèse her last daughter.