[1][3] This prompted Bouteiller to help her mother manage the farm and seek out work and was all the more important when two of her brothers married in 1837.
[2] On 19 March 1841 she joined the order of the Sisters of the Christian Schools in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte and made her solemn profession as a religious on 14 September 1842 in the name of "Marthe".
The Franco-Prussian War saw her tend to French troops at the convent and received the praise of the soldiers due to her careful attention to the spiritual and material needs of the men.
Viel's death in 1877 broke Bouteiller's heart and she could not bring herself to bid a final farewell to her novice mistress and friend.
On Palm Sunday - 18 March 1883 - she went to bring bottles into the kitchen after dinner and fell to the ground.
[4] 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.
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.