Louis Martin
father of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, spouse of and Marie-Azélie Guérin (1823-1894)
Feast: 12 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Discalced Carmelite canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925, and her elder sister Léonie Martin, a Visitation Sister declared a Servant of God in 2015. That same year, the couple became the first in Catholic history to be canonized together.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Léonie Martin Saint Child“Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Discalced Carmelite canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925, and her elder sister Léonie Martin, a…” — Wikipedia
- Thérèse of Lisieux Saint Child“Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Discalced Carmelite canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925, and her elder sister Léonie Martin, a…” — Wikipedia
- Marie-Azélie Guérin Saint“The apostolic letter of her beatification describes Louis Martin and Zélie-Marie Guérin as a married couple and parents who, by the strength of the sacrament of marriage and after the example of the family of Nazareth, bore witness to their love for God, the Virgin Mary, the poor and the missions, and gave…” — this site's research
- Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin Saint“Marie-Azélie Guérin was born on 23 December 1831 at Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, excelled at needle lace, and married Louis Martin, by whom she had nine children, four of whom died in infancy while the five surviving daughters all entered the cloister, among them Saint Thérèse of Lisieux; she died of a severe cancer in…” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — Ludovico Martin e Maria Azelia Guerin — Vatican page for Louis Martin (1823-1894), father of St Thérèse of Lisieux, canonised with his wife on 18 October 2015.
- Wikidata Q13107341 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Louis Martin (lay brother) (CC BY-SA)
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