Par Ivan CAPECCHI
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updated on 16 Jan 23 at 16:25
Priest for 10 years, pastor of the parish of Sainte-Madeleine in Strasbourg and chaplain of the Episcopal College Saint-Étienne, Father Nicolas Tousch died on January 9, 2023, at the age of 44, following a fall. in his church.
The funeral of the one who is from Moselle will take place on Wednesday, January 18 at 10:30 a.m. in sound Sainte-Madeleine church in Strasbourg« avant burial in his village of Bousbach “, indicates the diocese of Strasbourg.
“We can collect near the coffin from Tuesday afternoon in the Sainte-Madeleine church”, specifies the institution.
Nicolas Tousch “feels the call of the Lord from the age of 8”
Here, reproduced here, the biography transmitted by the diocese of Strasbourg:
“Monsieur l’abbe Nicolas Tousch, born October 30, 1978 in Sarreguemines, in a family established in the nearby village of Bousbach. He is baptized on December 31, 1978 in the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church in Bousbach, where he also received confirmation on September 27, 1992 and celebrated his first mass.
He feels the call of the Lord from the age of 8marked in particular by his parish priest, Abbé René Bourgel, but he began, after secondary studies in Forbach and Metz, higher studies in history at the Faculty of Letters in Nancy, which opened up a teaching career of this discipline in various colleges in Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle.
At the age of 27, he asked to enter the major seminary of Strasbourg
At the age of 27, he asked to enter the major seminary of Strasbourg [établissement supérieur de formation de prêtres situé à Strasbourg, NDLR]. After the third year of formation, the degree in theology and admission among the candidates for the sacrament of orders, he was sent to Fribourg, Switzerland, to complete his studies in Marian theology.
It was in the chapel of the diocesan seminary of Saint-Charles, in Villars-sur-Glâne, that he was appointed reader in October 2010. He pursued another year of studies in Fribourg, where he obtained a master in theology with mention marked with praisebefore completing the time of the seminar in Strasbourg.
Ordained deacon in 2012
He is ordained deacon on Sunday, June 3, 2012 in the basilica of Marienthal by Mgr Kratz and priest on Sunday June 9, 2013 in the cathedral of Strasbourg by Mgr Grallet, after a diaconal internship in the community of parishes between Ill and Largue under the responsibility of the parish priest Franck Guichard.
He is named vicar in the parish communities of Val de Munster and Rives de la Fecht, in residence at Soultzbach, under the responsibility of Canon Jean-Louis Hug.
In September 2016, he was appointed chaplain at the Episcopal College Saint-Étienne in Strasbourg. Two years later, he was asked to combine this function with that of pastor of the parish of Sainte-Madeleine in Strasbourg. It also performs functions chaplain in the movement of Scouts d’Europe.
Victim of a heavy fall in his church
On Saturday January 7, 2023, the eve of Epiphany, he suffered a heavy fall in the chapel of the Sainte-Madeleine church, while trying to replace bulbs in a chandelier.
Seriously hit in the head, he was admitted urgently to Hautepierre Hospital. on brain death is noted the following evening by the doctors.
His heart stops beating on the morning of Monday, January 9, 2023 […] ».
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