Portrait of Léonie
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Who was Léonie? Visitandine in Caen, the 3rde of the Martin siblings is enjoying growing notoriety, with a beatification process underway in Rome. Discovery of a destiny quite different from that of Thérèse, that of a childhood of 14 years in Alençon, marked by illness, perverse mistreatment by the servant, a hyperactive, school difficulties….
Despite everything, Léonie climbed back up the slope, and sought to find peace in a religious life entirely given and offered. In her stripping and fragility, she was undoubtedly the one who best understood and intensely lived for decades the "Little Way" of humility and trust, theorized by her sister Thérèse.
Guest: Madeleine de Gourcuff, author of “Léonie Martin, the biography”, Artège editions, 2023.
