Marta Le Bouteiller

Aimée-Adèle Le Bouteiller (2 December 1816 - 18 March 1883) was a French religious sister of the Sisters of Marie-Madeleine Postel. She assumed the religious name Marthe and became noted for her work for the congregation in a range of capacities.

She was close friends with Placide Viel who was her novice mistress; this would bring her into conflict with Viel's elder cousin who was at odds with Viel. Nevertheless, the religious attempted to live a model life based on the tenets of the Gospel.

She was beatified in 1990.

Life Aimée-Adèle Le Bouteiller was born on 2 December 1816 as the third of four children to Andrea Le Bouteiller (1788-1827) and Maria Francesca Morel who were farmers and linen weavers. Her mother became widowed and had to care for her four children with the death of Andrea on 1 September 1827 to tuberculosis. The formal introduction to the cause on 1 February 1948 - under Pope Pius XII accorded the late religious with the title of Servant of God as the first official stage in the process. An apostolic process was also conducted following this. The Congregation of Rites validated the previous processes in Rome on 18 April 1953 while consultants and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints met and approved the cause on 23 November 1982. The C.C.S. themselves voted in favor once again on 27 June 1983 and would pass it to the pope for his approval.

On 24 September 1983 she was proclaimed to be Venerable after Pope John Paul II acknowledged that the late nun had lived a life of heroic virtue.

The miracle required for her to be beatified was investigated in the location that it had originated in and received full C.C.S. validation on 5 December 1987. This in turn allowed a medical board to discuss the healing and the latter voted in the affirmative for the healing as a miracle on 26 April 1989 while consulting theologians did so as well on 30 June 1989. The C.C.S. did so as well on 21 November 1989 and passed it to the pope who approved it on 21 December 1989.

John Paul II presided over the beatification on 4 November 1990.