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Eddie Martin
Eddie Martin received a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina where he met the love of his life, Jennifer Nates. They were wed and blessed ...view moreEddie Martin received a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina where he met the love of his life, Jennifer Nates. They were wed and blessed with four children. The couple walked away from successful careers to start a business of their own, Louisiana Gifts and Gallery, Inc., in Prairieville, a suburb of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The business was successful and allowed the Martins to lead many mission trips to Honduras and Liberia, Africa.
Jennifer’s time on this earth came to an end after thirty-five years of marriage and fifty-five years of life. Eddie, already a permanent deacon in the Catholic Church, then entered Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is now ordained as a Catholic priest, currently serving at St. Aloysius in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He enjoys his three children and five grandchildren.
1/25/2021:
Eddie Martin is a Louisiana native who met the love of his life, Jennifer Ann Nates, in Columbia, South Carolina, at the University of South Carolina. She was studying pharmaceuticals, intent on running the family drugstore she had been overseeing since the death of her father when she was seventeen. Eddie was studying chemical engineering. They were wed in 1978 and were blessed with four children, three of whom are still alive today. Eddie worked as a chemical engineer until their first child, Alex, arrived. Shortly thereafter, the two created a family business, Greetings of the Heart, based on Eddie’s artistic skills and Jennie’s entrepreneurial energy, which eventually evolved into Louisiana Gifts and Gallery Inc., just outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In the year 2003, Eddie felt a strong pull to give his life more fully to service of others through the church. He enrolled in the diaconate formation program and was ordained as a deacon of the Catholic church in 2010. Following the birth of the love of his life to heaven, he returned to seminary and was ordained into the priesthood in 2016. His is a unique priestly perspective with his family background and the five grandchildren he enjoys today.
He was inspired to write this memoir to help others better cope with difficulties in life, such as cancer and the loss of a child or spouse, and to celebrate the joys of two living as one through the bond of matrimony, a bond that survives and carries us through the death of a spouse. His prayer is to bring peace to all whose faith is shaken by tragedies of life and to give hope and solace to those who wonder how God can let bad things happen to good people.view less