an elder sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. She is sometimes dubbed Saint Thérèse's "difficult sister".

Her cause for beatification was introduced in the Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux in 2015, and she was given the posthumous title Servant of God.

Life

Marie Léonie Martin was born in Alençon in the department of Orne in France on 3 June 1863. She was the third