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Emma Üffing was born in Halverde, North Rhine-Westphalia, German Empire on April 8, 1914, to August Üffing and Maria Schmidt. Emma grew up with her ten brothers and sisters on the family farm where she worked until she was 17.
When she was 18 months of age, she was afflicted with rickets that caused her to have less than perfect health the rest of her life. Emma, however, never let this get her down. Throught her childhood, she was surrounded by the love of family and parish.
When she was 14, Emma told her family that she wanted to become a religious sister. On November 1, 1931, at the age of 17, Emma began a two-year program in household management at St. Ann Hospital in Hopsten and completed it in May 1933. While in this program, Emma became familiar with the Sisters of Charity of Münster. During her time in the household management program, Emma’s father died.
On July 23, 1934, Emma joined 46 other postulants of the Sisters of Charity in Münster. She took the name Maria Euthymia in honor of the former mother superior of that house, Sr. Euthymia Linnenkämper. On October 11, 1936, Sr. Maria Euthymia made her simple vows.
In October 1936, Sr. Euthymia was appointed to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dinslaken and studied nursing. On September 3, 1939, she passed her nursing exams with distinction and received her nursing diploma. A year later, on September 15, 1940, Sr. Euthymia made her final profession.
During World War II, Sr. Euthymia found herself caring for sick prisoners of war and foreign workers, especially British, French, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian with infectious diseases. One of her patients, a French priest who lived as a prisoner of war in the Dinslaken for several years, praised Sr. Euthymia profusely. He noted she had great sympathy and instilled a sense of being safe and at home. She prayed with the sick and made sure they could receive the sacraments. He said, “…Sr. Euthymia’s life was a canticle of hope in the midst of war.”
When the war was over, Sr. Euthymia was transferred to running the laundry facilities in Dinslaken and then, three years later, taking over the larger laundry operations at the order’s mother house and St. Raphael Clinic in Münster. Despite the radical change required from patient care to housekeeping duties, Sr. Euthymia never complained. “Everything is for Almighty God” would be her reply.
Sr. Euthymia died on the morning of September 9, 1955, in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She was beatified on October 7, 2001, by Pope John Paul II. Blessed Euthymia’s feast day is September 9.
