ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 12th of July WELCOME! SAINTS LOUIS AND ZELIE MARTIN GREAT CHRISTIAN PARENTS THROUGH FAITH AND EXAMPLE Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin were themselves the children of two fervent Christian families in the proud land of Normandy in the north of France; formed by the good example all around them and well instructed in the faith. The childhood of Louis was happy and serene, but Zelie had more than her share of suffering. Her health was poor, and her mother was over-severe. ‘Although she was good,’ Zelie wrote years later to her daughter Pauline, ‘she did not know how to handle me, and so I suffered much in my heart.’ DESIRE FOR THE RELIGIOUS LIFE To both, in their youth, came the desire to consecrate themselves to God in the religious life. Louis, of a contemplative disposition, knocked at the door of the famous monastery of the Great St Bernard in the Alps. Zelie, given to the active life, applied to the Sisters of Charity of St V...