Because her suffering was entirely dedicated to God and to the thousands of people, famous or anonymous, who came to her bedside to gather an opinion, an encouragement, sometimes a simple word... It is notably on the testimonies of these visitors that Bernard Peyrous relied on to draw the most complete portrait to date of Marthe Robin. That of a woman who, far from the excesses attributed to mystics, is on the contrary disarming in her simplicity and admirable in her courage.