One of my American readers sent me this letter:

With the information you provided earlier I was able to contact the procurator for Bl. Louis & Zelie Martin's cause in Italy. I received their relics in a single reliquary, a most beautiful reliquary. My family and friends began a novena on Thursday, July 9th, praying for the intercession of Louis and Zelie for the cure of my sister-in-law of terminal breast cancer. Her name is Theresa Martin. May I ask that you remember her in your prayers, especially on this occasion? She has the relics in her possession day and night. We will conclude with a Mass of Healing and Thanksgiving this Friday, July 17th. How blessed we are to have Louis and Zelie in our lives!

Please join in prayer for the healing of Theresa Martin.  May Louis and Zelie intercede for her with the same tenderness they showed their own little Therese.  Please recite below the prayer to obtain this favor and for the canonization of Louis and Zelie.  Thank you.

A happy feast to Blessed Zelie and Louis Martin!  As a feast-day gift to my readers, I have created a photo gallery today of my privileged visit, as a pilgrim to their beatification, to the house and garden at 7 rue Labbey where Louis Martin lived with his daughters Leonie and Celine after he was released from the Bon Sauveur psychiatric hospital at Caen.  For the story of this visit and present-day photos of the house at Rue Labbey and of Isidore Guerin's house on Rue-Paul Banaston, please visit the photo gallery for Blessed Louis Martin's home on Rue Labbey.

Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux: their lives and beatification from Maureen O'Riordan on Vimeo.

The first liturgical feast of Blessed Zelie and Louis Martin, the parents of St. Therese, will be celebrated on Sunday, July 12, the anniversary of their marriage in 1858. The Shrine at Lisieux has announced a two-day celebration of liturgy, prayer, and festivities.Cardinal Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milan, will preside at a Pontifical Mass in the Basilica of St. Therese, where Louis and Zelie were beatified on October 19, 2009. See the schedule of liturgies and festivities.

In honor of the first feast of the Martin spouses, I am happy to present the photo show "Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux: Their lives and beatification" above. Please celebrate the feast by joining us in this virtual pilgrimage to the places Louis and Zelie made holy by living with such faith, hope, and love. View the historic exhibit "Story of a Family" mounted at Lisieux in honor of the beatification, with furniture, possessions, documents, and photos belonging to the Martin family. See photos of Pietro Schiliro, the Italian child healed at the intercession of Zelie and Louis, and photos of his family. View the images of the beatification ceremony and of the reliquary. Come as a pilgrim of the heart to honor the faithful servants of God, and ask for the grace to imitate them.

On the feast of the Sacred Heart am happy to present my article "Saint Therese of Lisieux and the Sacred Heart of Jesus," which the Apostleship of Prayer published on its Web site. Therese joined the Apostleship of Prayer on October 15, 1885, when she was twelve.  With St. Francis Xavier, she is now its co-patron. 

June 24, 2009. Zenit.org reported that the astronaut who carried a relic of St. Therese into space attended the Papal audience in Rome today. He will bring another relic of St. Therese on his next trip into space in 2011.