MARTHE ROBIN
A Prophetic Vision of the Gospel Message

By Bernard Peyrous with a foreword by Jean Vanier
Veritas 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84730-237-3

The extraordinary life of one of the most intriguing figures of the 20th century. Born into a peasant family in a remote French village, confined to bed with paralysis by the age of eighteen, blind by the age of thirty-eight, Marthe Robin nonetheless founded the Foyers of Charity and gave counsel and prayerful support to over 100,000 visitors. The postulator for her cause, traces the spiritual journey of one whose identification with Jesus was so intense that she suffered the stigmata and every Friday for years experienced the Passion of Christ