Blessed Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin

Memorial

• 13 July

Profile

Lifelong lay woman. Lace maker. Married to Blessed Louis Martin on 12 July 1858. Mother of nine children; five of them, all girls, survived to adulthood and became nuns; the youngest was Saint Therese of Lisieux.

Born

• 23 December 1831 in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France

Died

• 28 August 1877 in Alençon, Orne, France of breast cancer

Venerated

• 26 March 1994 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)

Beatified

• Mission Sunday, 19 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
• recognition celebrated at the cathedral at Lisieux, France
• on 3 July 2008 Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree acknowledging a miracle involving the 2002 repair of a normally-fatal congential lung condition suffered by the infant Pietro Schiliro of Monza, Italy following a novena prayed by Pietro’s mother asking for the intervention of Blessed Louis and Blessed Marie-Azelie

Canonized

• if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Marie, contact
     Rev. Ildefonso Moriones Zubillaga, OCD
     Office Central de Lisieux
     51, Rue du Carmel
     14100 Lisieux, FRANCE

Additional Information

• Hagiography Circle
• Sanctuaire Sainte Therese de Lisieux
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin”. Saints.SQPN.com. 21 August 2010. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-marie-azelie-guerin-martin/>