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Blessed Élisabeth Eppinger
Blessed Élisabeth Eppinger

Blessed Élisabeth Eppinger

Also known as: Mother Alphonse-Marie; Sister Alphonse-Marie; Alfonsa Maria Elisabeth Eppinger; The Niederbronn Ecstatic

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

31-Jul

Born

9 September 1814 in Niederbronn-les-Baines, Bas-Rhin, France during the Bourbon Restoration

Died

31 July 1867 in Niederbronn-les-Baines, Bas-Rhin, France during the Second French Empire of natural causes; remains re-interred on 8 November 1950 as part of the canonization investigation process

Beatified

8 September 2018 by Pope Francis; the beatification recognition was celebrated in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu the chief celebrant

Venerated

19 December 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of heroic virtues)

Biography

Blessed Élisabeth Eppinger, also known as Mother Alphonse-Marie, Sister Alphonse-Marie, and by her birth name Alfonsa Maria Elisabeth Eppinger, was born on 9 September 1814 in Niederbronn-les-Baines, Bas-Rhin, France. She was the eldest of eleven children born into a poor farm family.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified
Beatified2018-09-08 by 8 September 2018 by Pope Francis; the beatification recognition was celebrated in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu the chief celebrant
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