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<div class="col-article__title"> <h1 > <div class="rich-text "> Father Alphonse L’Heureux (1894-1947) </div> </h1> </div> <div class="col-article__date"> <time>Sept. 1, 2025</time> </div> <div class="col-article__byline"> <span>By Columbia staff</span> </div> <div class="col-article__date-mobile"> <time>Sept. 1, 2025</time> </div> <section class="col-article__content-rich-text"> <div class="score-rich-text-block default default"> <div class="content-area "> <div class="rich-text "> <figure class="image headshot right"><img src="https://files.kofc.org/images/assets/CMM_AlphonseLHeureux.jpg/Zz00NzY5NTgxMDgzNzYxMWYwYjRhMDFhZjdmNDk0ZmFiMQ==" alt="Father Alphonse L’Heureux (Photo courtesy of Hagiography Circle)" width="500" height="500"> <figcaption> Father Alphonse L’Heureux. (Photo courtesy of Hagiography Circle)</figcaption> </figure> <p>Dying of dysentery and infected wounds under Chinese Communist captivity, Trappist Father Alphonse L’Heureux whispered his final confession. “I shall die tomorrow — Mary’s day (Saturday),” he said. “In heaven, I shall pray for all of you. Be brave.”</p> <p>The youngest of four siblings, Albert L’Heureux was born in Coaticook, Québec. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1929 and sent as a missionary to Zhejiang Province, China. In 1939, he obtained permission to join the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) at Our Lady of Consolation Monastery in Yangjiaping, Hebei Province. Embracing a life of prayer, silence, and manual labor, he took the name Alphonse. He always visited the chapel to pray after working in the fields, and he went to confession almost daily.</p> <p>The community endured hardship during and after World War II. From 1943 to 1946, Father Alphonse and other monks were imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, where food was scarce and conditions harsh. Soon after their release, Chinese Communist forces began targeting Catholics with false accusations, looting, and beatings.</p> <p>In August 1947, soldiers forced the Trappists on a 100-mile death march through the mountains. Bound with steel wire that cut into his hands, Father Alphonse developed severe infections and dysentery. On Friday, Sept. 12, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, he received the sacraments one last time. The next day, a soldier who saw his body remarked that he resembled the figure of Christ in the monastery chapel.</p> <p>Between 1947 and 1948, 33 Trappists from Our Lady of Consolation were martyred. 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