Blessed Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin

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
Venerated: 26 March 1994 by Pope Paul II
Beatified: 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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