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About St. Zélie Martin
December 23, 1831 – August 28, 1877 · Feast July 12 · Laywoman / Mother of St. Thérèse
French lacemaker, businesswoman, and mother of nine children, four of whom died in infancy. She and her husband Louis raised their five surviving daughters — including the future St. Thérèse of Lisieux — in a household of extraordinary faith and joy, where ordinary married life was lived as a path to holiness. She died of breast cancer at age forty-five, leaving behind a treasury of letters that document the daily sanctity of a Christian family. With Louis she is the first married couple canonized together in modern history.
St. Zélie Martin is the patron saint of Married Couples, Mothers, Parents of Large Families, The Bereaved and Those Who Have Lost Children.
