I always considered my parents to be saints. We had deep respect and admiration for them. I sometimes wondered if there was anyone like them on earth. At least I could not find them around me.
Mama had as much admiration for my father as she did affection, and she let him fully exercise a truly patriarchal authority.
My father often spoke to us about our “holy mother”, as he called her. She, for her part, wrote to her brother: “What a holy man my husband is! I would wish one like him for all women.”
The perfect union of these model parents was always orientated towards the thought of eternal life.
Leonie Martin. “The Mother of St. Therese of the Child Jesus”;
Celine Martin. “The Father of St. Therese of the Child Jesus”
