{"id":33598,"date":"2016-07-12T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33598"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:51:03","slug":"sts-louis-and-zelia-martin-a-sainted-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/sts-louis-and-zelia-martin-a-sainted-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Sts. Louis and Z\u00e9lia Martin &#8211;a sainted couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Martin-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33599 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Martin-family-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Martin family\" width=\"439\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Martin-family-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Martin-family-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Martin-family.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a>We liturgically remember Saints Louis and Z\u00e9lia Martin, the married couple whose human love cooperated with Divine Grace which generated the beauty of the Little Flower.<\/p>\n<p>As with all holy men and women, saints, they had a lived in a\u00a0recognition &#8211;continual&#8211; that God is all and the desire to give all. From this recognition, 5 daughters entered consecrated life; 4 in Carmel and one in the Order of the Visitation.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis acknowledged that the Church wants and needs married couples who point to Christ and so canonized Louis and Z\u00e9lia during the Synod on the Family on 18 October \u00a02015; becoming the first spouses in the church&#8217;s history to be canonized as a couple.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of a liturgical memorial on 12 July marks\u00a0the date of their matrimony in 1858.<\/p>\n<p>May Saints\u00a0Louis and Z\u00e9lia help us to\u00a0integrate our faith in every aspect of family life remembering that the married vocation is to help each other become saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We liturgically remember Saints Louis and Z\u00e9lia Martin, the married couple whose human love cooperated with Divine Grace which generated the beauty of the Little Flower. As with all holy men and women, saints, they had a lived in a\u00a0recognition &#8211;continual&#8211; that God is all and the desire to give all. From this recognition, 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/sts-louis-and-zelia-martin-a-sainted-couple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sts. Louis and Z\u00e9lia Martin &#8211;a sainted couple<\/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\/33598"}],"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=33598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33601,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33598\/revisions\/33601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}