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Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne
French priest and missionary
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS (1 May , Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May , Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary.
Ratisbonne monastery
He later was a co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, a religious congregation dedicated to the conversion of Jews to the Christian faith.[1]
Biography
He was born 1 May in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, the eleventh of the thirteen children born to Auguste Ratisbonne and his wife, Adélaïde Cerfbeer,[2] members of the famed family of Jewish bankers.
His father was the president of the Provincial Council of Alsace.[3] His mother died when he was 4 years old, but his natural charm drew his wider family to take charge of his upbringing. The family was assimilated into the secular society of France, but had a strong sense of social justice, with which value he w
