Who is the greatest married saint?

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I don’t know too many saints who were married. St. Rita comes to mind, but she was also widowed. Who else?
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Good responses so far. There is a more recent saint (I’m not sure if she’s canonized yet) but she had several children, and sacrificed her own life so that her unborn child could live. If anyone knows that name, please remind me:o
 
St Thomas More was a good family man - made sure his biological and adopted daughters got an excellent education at a time when it wasn’t common for women to be well-educated.

Remarried after his first wife died so as to provide a good role model for his daughter.
 
Among Orthodox saints who were married are the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of Russia. The Tsaritsa’s sister, also numbered among the saints, was widowed.
 
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Good ones! 🙂 Didn’t Peter more or less leave his family after being called by Christ?
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We don’t know- maybe he was a widower, maybe his children were grown:shrug:

The sons of Zebedee had a little story about them leaving their family, I recall. To my recolloection, Peter pretty much got up and went with Jesus.
 
St Margaret of Scotland is another married saint, as is St Edward the Confessor, both of them monarchs, though it’s thought Edward may have remained celebate within his marriage.
 
MarcoPolo said:
Good ones! 🙂 Didn’t Peter more or less leave his family after being called by Christ?
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Tim_Kirchoff said:
We don’t know- maybe he was a widower, maybe his children were grown:shrug:

The sons of Zebedee had a little story about them leaving their family, I recall. To my recolloection, Peter pretty much got up and went with Jesus.
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Paul talks about Peter bringing his wife with him. They may have had time apart while he was tramping about with Jesus, but there is no reason to believe he abandoned his family, or that he didn’t live with his wife in Rome.
 
MarcoPolo said:
He remarried a woman who would be a good role model for his daughter?
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Yes absolutely. His first wife died while his daughter was just a little baby. He re-married almost immediately to a widow with young children of her own. Dame Alice was even a bit older than he was. They were happily married for many, many years.

There was also a couple recently beautified (if not cannonized) who were recognized specifically as a married couple and for the example they gave as as a couple. Does anyone remember their names? Going off to search now…
 
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Yes absolutely. His first wife died while his daughter was just a little baby. He re-married almost immediately to a widow with young children of her own. Dame Alice was even a bit older than he was. They were happily married for many, many years.

There was also a couple recently beautified (if not cannonized) who were recognized specifically as a married couple and for the example they gave as as a couple. Does anyone remember their names? Going off to search now…
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Could you be thinking of the Martins, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux?
 
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Could you be thinking of the Martins, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux?
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No, apparently I was thinking of the Quattrocchi’s. From Zenit:
Louis (1823-1894) and Zelie (1831-1877) Martin are known as the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who was proclaimed a doctor of the Church by John Paul II in 1997. Married in 1858, the Martins had nine children. Four died in infancy and five entered the religious life.
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In March 1994 the Pope proclaimed the Martin spouses venerable. They might soon be the second married couple to be beatified simultaneously. Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi were beatified in October 2001.
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