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Zélie – When Louis and Zélie talk to couples (2/4) – the tests

Zelie, November 2019

Navigating hardships with Louis Martin

We regularly talk about Zélie Martin in our pages, but her husband Louis Martin also had his share of hardships: the impossible outcome of his religious vocation, the death of four children, the death of his wife Zélie leaving him as a single parent, with five daughters between 17 and 4 years, crippling disease. Guy Fournier, deacon and assistant to the rector of the Louis and Zélie sanctuary in Alençon (Orne), tells us.

Read the full article in Zélie's magazine n°46 (pages 24 and 25)

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