Dominique Menvielle will paint the portrait, this Monday, October 8, at the diocesan house of Rennes. Sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and daughter of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, Léonie Martin could be the next Norman saint. Her beatification process has been open since 2015.
After a very Teresian week in Rennes (reopening of the Sainte-Thérèse church and the Natasha St Pier concert), one of the sisters of the Saint of Lisieux is now in the spotlight: Léonie. She is often unknown, except to regulars of the Monastery of the Visitation, in Caen, huddled behind the imposing abbey. It was in this Norman monastery that her beatification trial was opened on January 24, 2015.
But who was this Léonie Martin, sister and daughter of saints (her parents Louis and Zélie were canonized in 2015)?
Dominique Menvielle, a member of the Notre-Dame de Vie Institute, after having directed the Thérèse de Lisieux and Teresian Life magazines for eleven years, explored the archives of the Visitation of Caen on Léonie. She is the guest this Monday evening of the Friends of the diocesan library of Rennes. She is the author of Sacré Léonie, cancre sur le banc des saints » (éditions de l’Emmanuel (17 €).(“Holy Léonie, dunce on the bench of saints” )
This Monday, October 8, at 8:30 pm, lecture by Dominique Menvielle, at the diocesan house, 45 rue de Brest in Rennes. Free entry.