Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin
| Saint Louis Joseph Aloys Stanislaus Martin | |
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| Born | Louis Joseph Aloys Stanislaus Martin 22 August 1823 Bordeaux, Gironde, France |
| Died | 29 July 1894 (aged 70) Arnières-sur-Iton, Eure, France |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 19 October 2008, Basilique de Sainte-Thérèse, France by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Canonized | 18 October 2015, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis |
| Feast | 12 July |
| Saint Marie-Azélie Guérin | |
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| Born | Azélie-Marie Guérin 23 December 1831 Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France |
| Died | 28 August 1877 (aged 45) Alençon, Orne, France |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 19 October 2008, Basilique de Sainte-Thérèse, France by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Canonized | 18 October 2015, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis |
| Feast | 12 July |
Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were two married Roman Catholic French laypeople and the parents of four Roman Catholic nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun who was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church in 1925. On 18 October 2015, the couple were also canonized as saints, becoming the first spouses in the church's history to be canonized as a couple.
Louis Joseph Aloys Stanislaus Martin was the third of five children of Pierre-François Martin and Marie-Anne-Fanny Boureau. All his siblings died before reaching age 30.
Although Louis intended to become a monk, wishing to enter the Augustinian Great St. Bernard Monastery, he was rejected because he did not succeed at learning Latin. Later he decided to become a watchmaker and studied his craft in Rennes and in Strasbourg.
Azélie-Marie Guérin was born in Gandelain, near Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France. She was the second daughter of Isidore Guérin and Louise-Jeanne Macé. She had an older sister, Marie-Louise, who became a Visitandine nun, and a younger brother, Isidore, who was a pharmacist. Her maternal family was from the Madré, in the neighbouring department of Mayenne, where her grandfather, Louis Macé, was baptised on 16 March 1778.
Zélie wanted to become a nun, but was turned away by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul due to respiratory difficulties and recurrent headaches. She then prayed for God to give her many children and that they would be consecrated to God. She later decided to become a lacemaker, manufacturing Alençon lace. She fell in love with the watchmaker Louis Martin in 1858 and married him, only three months later, on 12 July 1858, at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Alençon. Zélie's business became so successful that, in 1870, Louis sold his watchmaking business to go into partnership with her.
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