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Exhibition Father Charles Umbricht - Military chaplain
The story of Father Charles Umbricht, whose parents were natives of Obernai, is retraced in the exhibition created to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
His parents having chosen to settle in Meurthe-et-Moselle to retain their French nationality after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, Charles was born in Amenoncourt on February 9, 1873. He was ordained to the priesthood on August 8, 1897 in Nancy Cathedral.
A volunteer serviceman, his heroic battlefield ministry earned him 12 commendations, with seven palms and five stars on the ribbon of his Croix de Guerre. Military chaplain for the Alsace territory from April 1919 to August 1939, he returned frequently to Mont Sainte-Odile and Obernai, where the illustrious artist René Kuder included him in his Père Blanc cassock in the imposing fresco of Saint Odile in the church's right transept.
He died in Meyzieu (Rhône) on October 22, 1941.
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- du 29/08/2024 au 01/10/2024