August 22, 1823: Saint Louis Martin born in Bordeaux. Read the newest details!

Why was St. Louis Martin born in Bordeaux?

Introduces a series about St. Louis Martin’s birth and baptism in Bordeaux while his father was participating in a military campaign in Spain. Contemporary photographs of his birthplace and his baptismal church, St. Eulalie’s, with its lovely stained-glass window depicting Pope Leo XIII receiving Louis and Therese. Photos of Louis’s birth certificate, which no author seems to have found before, and his baptismal certificate, which had disappeared from the church. Both documents were recovered especially for this series, which displays copies of the original handwritten French documents and supplies annotated transcripts in English.

"The World of Saint Therese and Her Family," a photo show

In honor of the pilgrimage of the relics of St. Therese and of her parents, Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, and if the visit of Pope Francis o Ireland in connection with the World Meeting of Families, I have created a photo gallery, "The World of Saint Therese and Her Family," to offer you a visual experience of the concrete reality of their lives on earth, during which they became holy. It contains more than 350 photos, many, from my visit to France in May, never published before.  Arranged in chronological order, these images illustrate the story of their lives from the birth of St. Louis in 1823 until the canonization of the Martin spouses in 2015.  I thank the Shrine at Alencon and the Web site of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux.  If you enjoy it, please help me spread the word. Thank you.  The above shows highlights of the first part of the photo gallery.  To see the gallery, click the photo below:

"An Encounter with St. Therese of Lisieux," a retreat day at the Carmelite Monastery in Santa Clara, California on Saturday, November 11, 2017

An Encounter with St. Therese of Lisieux

Carmel of the Infant Jesus
1000 Lincoln Street
Santa Clara, California

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Therese Martin aged 15, in April 1888

The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites of Santa Clara invites you to this retreat day. 

Schedule

9:00 a.m.        Registration and coffee

9:30 a.m.        Welcome and Morning Prayer

                        Conference by Maureen O’Riordan

                        "Saints Louis and Zelie Martin,
                        the Parents of St. Therese of Lisieux”

                        followed by Questions and Answers

11:40 a.m.      Free Time

12:00 noon    Conference by Maureen O’Riordan
                       “A Map of Saint Therese’s Way of Confidence and Love”
                       followed by Questions and Answers

1:15 p.m.       Lunch

2:00 p.m.       Conference by Maureen O’Riordan
                      “How Can We Love One Another?  
                       St. Therese’s Practice of Sisterly Love in Her Carmelite Community”
                       followed by questions and answers

                      Personal Prayer

3:45 p.m.     
to 4:30 p.m.  Mass of the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
                      Fr. James Geoghegan,  O.C.D. will preside.

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Learn about the speaker, Maureen O'Riordan

Maureen O'Riordan

Her journey with St. Therese; selected presentations and publications

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Note:  Maureen will also present "A Map of the Way of Confidence and Love of Saint Therese of Lisieux" the day after the above event, on Sunday, November 12, 2017 at the Mount Saint Joseph Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite friars in San Jose.  Details here.

"A Map of the Way of Confidence and Love of St. Therese of Lisieux," a conference at Mount Saint Joseph Carmelite Monastery in San Jose, California on Sunday, November 12, 2017

The Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Mount Saint Joseph
Carmelite Monastery in San Jose invite you to attend

“A Map of the Way of Confidence and Love
of  St. Thérèse of Lisieux” 

St. Therese in 1889, aged 16
Credit: Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux

a conference by Maureen O’Riordan of Philadelphia,
curator of “Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: A Gateway”

followed by questions and answers

Sunday November 12, 2017  

3:00 p.m.

At the Carmelite Monastery
12455 Clayton Road
San Jose, California

You are invited to stay for Evening Prayer and Benediction with the Carmelites at 5:00 p.m.

 No tickets; no registration
Donations are welcome at the event. 

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Learn about the speaker, Maureen O'Riordan

Maureen O'Riordan

Her journey with St. Therese; selected presentations and publications

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Note:  Maureen will also present three conferences at a retreat day about St. Therese and Sts. Louis and Zelie the day before the above event, on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at the monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Santa Clara.  Details here.

"Death of a mama: August 28, 1877" - an article about the death of Saint Zelie Martin, the mother of St. Therese

saint Zelie Martin's first tombstone.  it marked her grave in the cemetery of the church of notre dame in alencon until 1894, when her body was moved to lisieux and interred beside the body of her husband.   photo credit:  susan ehlert.

Click on this title to read the article "Death of a mama: August 28, 1877," which gives details of the last hours, death, and funeral of Saint Zelie Martin.  It includes the testimony of Louise Marais, the maid who looked after Saint Zelie in her last illness.   This article originally appeared in French in Therese de Lisieux, the magazine of the Pilgrimage Office at Lisieux.  We thank them for permission to translate it and publish it in English.