 Ven. Br. Alpert
Motsch
Brother
Alpert (Chrétien Motsch) was born in Eywiller, Alsace, on May
26, 1849. In 1879 he was entrusted with the
direction of the large and splendid school, the "St. Joseph Mission", Rue Lafayette, for the sons of
emigrants from Alsace and Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871. A clever teacher, he combined kindness
with strictness in the training of his pupils. And they, in their turn, responded generously to his zeal, taking
part in all night adoration in Montmartre and in the Association of St. Benedict Labre founded by
Brother
Exupérien. During the Franco-Prussian war he contracted creeping paralysis which he accepted as a grace
of God. He was a religious and an apostle till the very last moment of his sacrifice. He died in Paris on April
16, 1898. |
