Beatification of Léonie Martin . The bishop of Calvados deposited the dossier in Rome.
On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Bishop Jean-Claude Boulanger, Bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, deposited with the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome the twelve boxes containing the documents for the beatification and canonization of Léonie Martin, the sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
Bishop Boulanger, bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, went to Rome to place the file for the beatification of Léonie Martin.
In Rome, the office of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints opened exceptionally on the morning of Tuesday, March 10, 2020. It was not a question of welcoming a prestigious guest. Simply, Bishop Jean-Claude Boulanger, the Bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, came with loaded arms: twelve boxes containing nearly 20,000 pages that make up the dossier for the beatification and canonization of Léonie Martin.
No less than twelve boxes to contain the 20,000 pages resulting from more than five years of trial.
These archives and testimonies have been gathered over the course of more than five beatification trials. It was opened on July 2, 2015, at the Monastery of the Visitation in Caen, where the sister of Saint Therese of Lisieux had been a nun, under the name of Sister Françoise-Thérèse. It closed at the same place on February 22nd.
Bishop Boulanger was accompanied by Father Sangalli and Father Ruffray
Father Sangalli, the Italian postulator who supervised the investigation, and Father Olivier Ruffray, administrator of the cause and rector of the basilica of Lisieux, accompanied Bishop Boulanger in this Roman step towards beatification. From now on, the next step will be to study the “virtues” of Léonie Martin. If the answer is favorable, she will become “venerable”.