Louis and Zelie Martin's Beatification Medallion

                               

 

The front side

An engraving of the Martin spouses on the day of their marriage, surrounded by a wreath of roses which symbolizes holiness, love, and fidelity.

 


The back side

The biblical couple Sarah and Tobias evokes the eminent role of the vocation of marriage in the history of humanity and in the history of salvation.

The inscription

"Lisieux, October 19, 2008" recalls the place and the day where the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, inscribed the two spouses jointly in the Book of the Blessed.

The themes:

The wreath of roses and the figures of Sarah and Tobias are taken from the medallion that Louis Martin selected as a souvenir of the night of his wedding to Zélie Guérin, July 13, 1858, at Our Lady's Church in Alencon. The medal was blessed at the moment of their exchange of vows. The original medallion, still in existence, is at the bishopric of the diocese of Sées, in which Zelie was born. To see photographs of it, please click here.

Description:

A bronze medallion, silver-toned, with an antique patina, designed by the creator of the reliquary of Blessed Louis and Zélie Martin.
Dimension: 60 millimeters in diameter; 14 millimeters thick.
(About the size of a coaster.  For display, not to be worn).

To order from the United States

January 2012:  Many readers have asked how to purchase this medallion in the U.S.  Until now it's been impossible, but Cecilia Prizer of Angels of Our Lady Religious Store in Pennsylvania has imported a limited supply of the medallions for resale in the United States.  To view them and order online, please click here.  To order by telephone, please call 610-917-9470.   This store also offers beautiful and unique smaller medals of Louis and Zelie (designed to be worn on the person) in gold and silver and prayer cards of them.  All these items are imported from Lisieux; to view them, click here.

 

To order from France

Visit the bookstore of Office Central de Lisieux.

  To order from Italy,

Contact

Padre Antonio Sangalli

Centro Nazionale Carmelitano Vocazioni

Via Cappella del Monte n. 17 - Montechiaro di Vico Equense (NA)

e.mail: sangalli.antonio@carmelovocazioni.it - sangalli.antonio@tiscali.it

Telefono 081/8028045 - Fax 081/3931934 - Cell. 3384607070

or, if you can read Italian, click here. 

 

You may download flyers about the medallions from this Web page.  Please feel free to reproduce them to make the medallions available to those who are not online.

Download an order form for the medallion

 

Below is a description of the original marriage medallion Louis gave to Zelie.  You could copy this as the reverse side of the order form above.

Download a description of the 1858 medallion