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Marthe Robin was born in 1902 and died in 1981. For fifty years of her life she was paralyzed and bedridden. Living in a darkened room in the family farmhouse, she existed during those years in a kind of suspended state. Unable to move from her bed, she did not eat or drink or sleep; receiving only the nourishment of the Eucharistic host once a week. Each Friday she received the stigmata\u2013bleeding from her head, weeping tears of blood and bleeding profusely from\u00a0the five wounds of Christ. Nevertheless, this victim soul received tens of thousands of visitors, maintained a simple, joyful and pure trust in God\u2019s love and with the help of her confessor and director Fr Finet, began the Foyers of Charity.<\/p>\n

The Foyers are community retreat houses. The communities are run by consecrated lay people and led by a priest. They host retreatants for five day silent retreats. This new ecclesial movement in the church was inspired and led by Marthe from her sickbed.<\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s excellent book tells Marthe\u2019s story and places her life in the wider life of the Church and the world in the tumultuous twentieth century. For some reason Marthe\u2019s extraordinary life is little known in the English speaking world. Martin\u2019s book should help to remedy this. You can purchase the book here<\/a>. You can learn more about Marthe Robin here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"