Marthe Robin was born March 13, 1902, Châteauneuf-de-Galaure (Drôme), sixth child of a farming family. She studied at the village primary school until 1915, she left for work at home and fields.
Encephalitis "lethargic" seized in November 1918 and leaves in a coma for 27 months. At the age of twenty years Marthe Robin feels called, like all great mystics, to offer his life "for the conversion of sinners and sanctification of souls." 15 October 1925, discovering his particular vocation to suffering ("incomparable school of true love"), she devotes her life to God through an "act of abandonment to the love and the will of God": "My Lord God, you're asked your little servant, so take and receive all. On this day, I entrust myself to you unconditionally and irrevocably. " In 1926, relapse of his illness, his legs were paralyzed, she eats and just rest in bed.
In 1929 his arms are paralyzed in their turn. In 1930, she joined the Franciscan Third Order which it becomes a "consecrated virgin" in August. In late September, Jesus appeared to him and he receives the stigmata. She begins to experience the passion of Christ every day and more intensely, they say, Friday. His illness progresses to total paralysis of all four limbs and loss of sight in 1940: Marthe Robin remained for over fifty years in bed, without sleep, without drinking and eating only from the hosts.
In 1936, she invites "from God" Father Finet, deputy director of Catholic Education in Lyon to found a "Outbreak of love, Light and Love" to host spiritual retreats. This will be the first of the 75 institutions that have since emerged worldwide in over 40 countries.
Today, these communities "welcome and include men and women who, like the early Christians, are pooling their material, intellectual and spiritual."
Until his death, February 6, 1981, Martha, live in his room at the farm, in Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, where she will receive more than one hundred thousand visitors. Scores of people have testified that this meeting had their lot and that for some she changed their lives.
Many others around the world claim to have been influenced by reading about Marthe Robin.
Academician Jean Guitton said he met with Marthe most extraordinary person. The house where lived
Martha still receives many visitors.
The diocesan investigation for the beatification of Marthe Robin was opened by the Bishop of Valence (Drôme) in May 1991. It ended at Pentecost 1996, when the application was submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome. It follows its course ...
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