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      The Extraordinary Parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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      Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin

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      By Hélène Mongin

      Translated by Marsha Daigle-Williamson, Ph.D.

       Nihil Obstat

      Paris, September 13, 2008

      M. Dupuy

       Imprimatur

      Paris, September 13, 2008

      M. Vidal

      Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Published 2015.

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      ISBN: 978-1-61278-964-4 (Inventory No. T1728)

      eISBN: 978-1-61278-970-5

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      Cover design: Lindsey Riesen

      Cover art: © Office Central de Lisieux, Carmel de Lisieux, Lisieux sanctuary

      Interior design: Dianne Nelson

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

       To Jean-Paul and Morina,Stéphane and Julie,Patrick and Joséphine,the Martins of tomorrow

      Table of Contents

       We, the Ordinary People

       Abbreviations

       Preface

       Introduction

       Chapter 1: Youth or the Desire for God

       Chapter 2: A Marriage of Love

       Chapter 3: God First

       Chapter 4: The Vocation of Parents

       Chapter 5: The Martin Enterprise

       Chapter 6: A Missionary Couple

       Chapter 7: The Time of Trials

       Chapter 8: Zélie’s Suffering and Passion

       Chapter 9: Louis’s Offerings

       Conclusion: Canonizing Saints as a Couple

       Acknowledgments

      We, the Ordinary People

      God calls some people and sets them apart. But there are people he leaves in the crowd, those that he does not “withdraw from the world.”

      These are people who do ordinary work, who have an ordinary family, or who are ordinary single people. These are people with ordinary sicknesses and ordinary sorrows. They live in ordinary houses and wear ordinary clothes. They are people with ordinary lives—people that we meet on any street….

      As people on ordinary streets, we believe with our whole hearts that the street, the world that God has placed us in, is the place of our holiness.

      It doesn’t matter what work we do, whether we are holding a broom or a pen, speaking or being silent, repairing things or giving a lecture, taking care of a sick person, or typing on a computer.

      All of that is only the shell of a splendid reality—the encounter of the soul with God, renewed each moment, growing in grace each minute, always becoming lovelier for God.

      Is the doorbell ringing? Quick, let’s open the door. God is coming to love us. Need information? Here it is…. God is coming to love us. Is it time to eat? Let’s sit down to eat because God is coming to love us.

      Let’s let him do it.

      Madeleine Delbrêl

      We, the Ordinary People of the Streets (Nous autres, gens des rues [1971])

      Abbreviations

      CF Louis et Zélie Martin, Correspondance familiale, 1863-1885, Editions du Cerf, 2004.

      HF Father Stéphane-Joseph Piat, O.F.M., Histoire d’une famille, Tequi, 1997.

       LT Lettres de Thérèse de L’Enfant-Jésus

       PN Poésies

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