The Beatification of
Venerable Zelie and Louis Martin,
Parents of St. Therese
 

Icon painted by Paul Orlando for the Parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel in Trieste, Italy.  Displayed on thereseoflisieux.org with permission.

 

Saturday,  July 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m. EDT:  Venerable Zelie and Louis Martin are to be beatified on Mission Sunday, October 19, 2008, at Lisieux.  Cardinal Saraiva Martins announced it this afternoon when he presided at a Solemn Pontifical Mass at Notre-Dame Church at Alencon in honor of the 150th anniversary of their wedding.  Fr. Linus Ryan, O. Carm., director of the National Office for St. Therese in Ireland, notified me by telephone.  For news, watch this space.        

     The Beatification


"A pilgrimage to the beatification of Louis and Zelie Martin:
Alencon and Lisieux, 2008"
a film by Susan Ehlert

 

 

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