“We are living in the time of Mary”

“I have chosen you to live my Passion most fully after my Mother. What's more, no one after you will live it as fully, and so that you may suffer day and night, you will never sleep again”, Christ declared to Marthe Robin (1), a great mystic who went 50 years without eating or drinking anything other than the weekly Eucharist. 

Shortly before her death on February 6, 1981, Marthe, totally abandoned to the Mother of God, affirmed her great hope: “John Paul II is Mary's pope; she chose him especially. We are living in the time of Mary."

L'Alouette periodical, March 1986 issue

(1) Marthe Robin was born on March 13, 1902, in Châteauneuf-de-Galaure (Drôme), France. Little by little, she came to understand that as a laywoman she was called to live the offering of her whole life, in union with Jesus crucified for the Church and the world. She went 50 years without eating or drinking anything other than the weekly Eucharist. Until her death on February 6, 1981, Marthe lived in a small room on the farm at Châteauneuf-de-Galaure.