Watch the video of "Toward Canonization," the historic programme about the cause of Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin broadcast from the basilica of Notre-Dame at Alencon on October 19, 2013, the fifth anniversary of their beatification

Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 09:32AM
Maureen O'Riordan in Bernard Lagoutte, Dr. Paterlini, Louis and Zelie Martin, Pietro Schiliro, Toward canonization, Walter and Adele Schiliro

 The audio of this program is, of course, in French.

.Bishop Jacques Habert, bishop of Seez, introduces it.

• For this fifth anniversary, Walter and Adele Schiliro, the parents of the child Pietro whose healing at the intercession of Louis and Zelie Martin was accepted as the miracle for their beatification, traveled from Italy to France. The Schiliros are Italian, but you will see them seated in the sanctuary of the basilica where the couple whose intercession saved their son's life were married in 1858.  Walter Schiliro tells very simply the story of their son's birth, illness, and cure.  The Schiliros have said that their way of giving thanks is to make Louis and Zelie better known, and their testimony is deeply moving.
  
• Dr. Paterlini, a medical expert on Pietro Schiliro's case, then speaks about the case.
  
• Mgr Bernard Lagoutte, former rector of the basilica of St. Therese at Lisieux, will review the progress of the cause of the canonization of Zelie and Louis.  The program ends with questions from the audience.

We thank the diocese of Seez and M. Hubert Moritz for recording the program and uploading it so quickly. 

 

Article originally appeared on Saint Therese of Lisieux (http://www.thereseoflisieux.org/).