{"id":32716,"date":"2015-10-18T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32716"},"modified":"2015-10-18T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T16:54:32","slug":"louis-and-zelie-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/louis-and-zelie-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin, saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saints-Martins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32717 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saints-Martins-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"Saints Martins\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saints-Martins-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saints-Martins-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saints-Martins.jpg 1619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>Saints Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin are models of holiness for us today, especially for families.\u00a0The Martins were married in Alencon, France, in 1858 and gave to history nine children. Z\u00e9lie\u00a0Martin died of cancer in 1877, at the age of 45 and Louis died when in 1894, at 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis canonized\u00a0Louis and Z\u00e9lie today and beatified in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Saints Louis and Z\u00e9lie are\u00a0the parents of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux and another daughter and candidate for sainthood,\u00a0L\u00e9onie\u00a0 Martin, who\u00a0became Sister Fran\u00e7oise-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of the Monastery of the Visitation at Caen.<\/p>\n<p>Angelo Cardinal Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, described Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin as &#8220;an extraordinary witness of conjugal and family spirituality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the wish of Pope Francis the faithful were invited to pray before the mortal remains of the new saints at the Basilica of St. Mary Major.<\/p>\n<p>Saints Louis and Z\u00e9lie model for us the vocation of Catholic parents. Despite many difficulties and sufferings they persevered and kept strong faith. In an age when so many families suffer, let us pray for the strengthening of families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saints Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin are models of holiness for us today, especially for families.\u00a0The Martins were married in Alencon, France, in 1858 and gave to history nine children. Z\u00e9lie\u00a0Martin died of cancer in 1877, at the age of 45 and Louis died when in 1894, at 70 years. Pope Francis canonized\u00a0Louis and Z\u00e9lie today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/louis-and-zelie-martin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin, saints<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32727,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32716\/revisions\/32727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}