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The Joys, Sufferings, and Spiritual Fruits of the Marriage of Louis and Zelie Martin, by Dawn Beutner – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Joys, Sufferings, and Spiritual Fruits of the Marriage of Louis and Zelie Martin, by Dawn Beutner

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By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, July 12, 2025

Dawn Beutner is the editor of a new book All Things Are Possible: The Selected Writings of Mother Cabrini (Ignatius Press, 2025). She is also the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com.

The life stories of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s parents, Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, can help us learn how to live our vocations within family life in an extraordinary way.

While Saint Thérèse of Lisieux seemed to live an ordinary life in a middle-class French family, her autobiography is far from ordinary. The Story of a Soul has inspired millions of Catholics to recognize that, for each of us, our “vocation is love!”¹ The life stories of Thérèse’s parents, Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, can help us learn how to live our vocations within family life in an extraordinary way.

Louis-Joseph-Aloys-Stanislas Martin was twenty-two years old when he decided to travel from his native France to Switzerland. Upon arriving at the Grand-Saint-Bernard monastery in the Pennine Alps, he asked about obtaining permission to enter the community. But the monastery’s prior politely sent Louis home with encouragement to first learn some Latin. …

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