Rosa Flesch
German Roman Catholic religious (1826–1906)
Feast: 25 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Margaret Flesch was born at Schönstatt, near Koblenz, on 24 February 1826, the eldest of seven children of a poor oil-seed miller. After her mother's death in 1832 the family moved to Niederbreitbach.
As Mother Rosa she founded the Franciscan Sisters of St Mary of the Angels of Waldbreitbach.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A miller's daughter who founded a Franciscan congregation of sisters.
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: Margaret Flesch
- Wikidata Q75224 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Rosa Flesch (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.