Emma Üffing
German Catholic nun (1914-1955)
Feast: 9 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Emma Üffing was born and baptised on 8 April 1914 at Halverde, in the Steinfurt district, and grew up with ten brothers and sisters in a small village.
As Sister Maria Euthymia of the Sisters of Mercy she served God among the sick with remarkable piety, kindness and forgetfulness of self. She died on the morning of 9 September 1955.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A nursing sister who served the sick with kindness and complete self-forgetting.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Maria Euthymia Üffing
- Wikidata Q96496 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Euthymia Üffing (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.