niece

Reading Dehon's letters in which he talks to his niece Marthe (1865-1951) or writes about her, we can discover a new Dehon, tender, humorous and interested in the years of Marthe's childhood and later on in the difficult years of her husband's illness and death (André Malézieux +1893). Dehon was faithful, consoling and caring.

When Marthe was almost one year old, Dehon (himself then 23 years old) writes from Rome to his parents: "Embrace for me my little Marthe and tell her not to eat too much sugar so that later on she won't have to suffer as it happens sometimes to her uncle." (8-12-1866)
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