Blessed Louis Martin
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- Profile
- Lifelong layman in the diocese of Bayeux-Liseux, France.
Son of an army officer.
Watchmaker.
Married to Blessed Marie-Azelie Guérin Martin on 12 July 1858.
Father of nine children; five of them, all girls, survived to adulthood and became nuns; the youngest was Saint Therese of Lisieux.
In 1889 he suffered two paralyzing strokes followed by a complete mental collapse, and was hospitalized for three years.
- Born
- 22 August 1823 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
- Died
- 29 July 1894 in Arnières-sur-Iton, Eure, France of natural causes
- Venerated
- 26 March 1994 by Pope Paul II
- Beatified
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on 3 July 2008 Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree acknowledging a miracle attributable to Venerable Louis; the miracle involved the 2002 repair of a normally-fatal congential lung condition suffered by the infant Pietro Schiliro of Monza, Italy; the healing followed a novena said by Pietro's mother asking for the intervention of Blessed Louis and Blessed Marie-Azelie
beatification recognition scheduled for Mission Sunday, 19 October 2008 at the cathedral at Lisieux, France
- Canonized
- pending;
if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Louis, contact
Office Central de Lisieux
51, Rue du Carmel
14100 Lisieux, FRANCE
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