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Brother Alpert Motsch |
 Brother
Alpert (Chrétien Motsch) was born in Eywiller, Alsace, on 26 May 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 16
April 1898. |