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Academician Jean GUITTON, a privileged witness to the life of suffering of Marthe ROBIN, "the little saint of Châteauneuf", wrote that she stood at the gates of hell so that hell would be empty. A life of suffering, that's an understatement. In fact, Marthe lived 50 years paralyzed, permanently bedridden and plunged into the darkness of the modest room she occupied on the ground floor of the family farm. 50 years blind, without eating, without drinking and without sleeping. And, what's more, stigmatized. Every weekend, in fact, Marthe relived the scenes of the Passion. Her forehead, her side, her hands and her feet were stained with blood. - I saw the blood flow from her eyes! said one of the 100,000 witnesses who came to visit her over the course of her years of suffering. 6,000 people, including 300 priests, were present at her funeral, attesting to the influence of Marthe ROBIN. What remains is a gigantic work, driven by the little peasant girl from the Drôme, these Foyers de Charité spread by the dozens all over the world. Finally, a program that retraces without sentimentality or excess the life marked by both extreme suffering and profound beatitude of Marthe ROBIN who, entirely given to God, sometimes said to her visitors: - when one suffers, it is a school to love more. He who has not known pain will never be able to fully taste joy. A summit of mysticism. Director: Armand Isnard