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|SaintName=Blessed Edward Poppe
|SaintName=Blessed Edward Poppe
|SaintStage=Blessed
|SaintStage=Blessed
|SaintBirthDate=12-18-1890
|FeastDay=June 10
|SaintBirthPlace=Leest, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
|SaintBirthPlace=Leest, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
|SaintBirthCoordinates=51.0167, 4.5167
|SaintBirthCoordinates=51.0167, 4.5167
|SaintDeathDate=06-10-1924
|SaintDeathDate=1924-10-06
|DeathPlace=Moerbeke-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium
|DeathPlace=Moerbeke-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium
|SaintDeathCoordinates=51.2000, 3.8167
|SaintDeathCoordinates=51.2000, 3.8167
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|NotableLabel5=U.S. parish with Eucharistic devotion
|NotableLabel5=U.S. parish with Eucharistic devotion
|NotableCoordinates5=29.9333, -90.1000
|NotableCoordinates5=29.9333, -90.1000
|BeatificationDate=10-03-1999
|AssociatedCountries=Belgium
|AssociatedDioceses=[[Diocese of Ghent]]
|BeatificationDate=1999-03-10
|Beatifier=Pope John Paul II
|Beatifier=Pope John Paul II
|BeatificationLocation=St. Peter's Square, Vatican City
|BeatificationLocation=St. Peter's Square, Vatican City
|Canonized=No
|Canonized=No
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|SaintMiracle1=Healing of a child from terminal illness
|SaintMiracle1=Healing of a child from terminal illness
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|FeastDay=June 10
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|Profession=Priest
|Profession=Priest
|ReligiousAffiliation=Diocesan
|ReligiousAffiliation=Diocesan
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|Attributes=Monstrance; chalice; host
|Attributes=Monstrance; chalice; host
|PrimaryShrine=St. Martin's Church, Moerbeke, Belgium
|PrimaryShrine=St. Martin's Church, Moerbeke, Belgium
|AdditionalVeneration=
|AssociatedCountries=Belgium
|AssociatedDioceses=[[Diocese of Ghent]]
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'''Blessed Edward Poppe''' (Dutch: ''Eduard Poppe''; 18 December 1890 – 10 June 1924) was a Belgian diocesan priest and mystic renowned for his promotion of Eucharistic devotion, humility, and parish ministry, dying young from heart disease after a life of intense asceticism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bl. Edward Poppe |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1002 |website=Catholic Online |access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref> According to verified Church records and contemporary testimonies from his spiritual director Father Alfons Verstraeten, Edward, born the eighth of nine children to carpenter Jozef Poppe and Adelaïda Goethals in Leest, Flemish Brabant, discerned his vocation early, entering the minor seminary at Asse in 1907 and the major seminary at Ghent in 1911, where tuberculosis interrupted his studies in 1914, leading to a year of convalescence that deepened his Eucharistic spirituality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blessed Edward Poppe |url=https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/blessed-edward-poppe/ |website=Franciscan Media |access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref> Ordained on 18 September 1916 despite health issues, he served as vicar in Leest and Zele, founding the League of Eucharistic Adoration for children and emphasizing frequent Communion and reparation for sins, before a final assignment in Moerbeke in 1923, where he died at age 33 after receiving Viaticum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edward Poppe |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poppe |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>
'''Blessed Edward Poppe''' (Dutch: ''Eduard Poppe''; 18 December 1890 – 10 June 1924) was a Belgian diocesan priest and mystic renowned for his promotion of Eucharistic devotion, humility, and parish ministry, dying young from heart disease after a life of intense asceticism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bl. Edward Poppe |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1002 |website=Catholic Online |access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref> According to verified Church records and contemporary testimonies from his spiritual director Father Alfons Verstraeten, Edward, born the eighth of nine children to carpenter Jozef Poppe and Adelaïda Goethals in Leest, Flemish Brabant, discerned his vocation early, entering the minor seminary at Asse in 1907 and the major seminary at Ghent in 1911, where tuberculosis interrupted his studies in 1914, leading to a year of convalescence that deepened his Eucharistic spirituality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blessed Edward Poppe |url=https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/blessed-edward-poppe/ |website=Franciscan Media |access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref> Ordained on 18 September 1916 despite health issues, he served as vicar in Leest and Zele, founding the League of Eucharistic Adoration for children and emphasizing frequent Communion and reparation for sins, before a final assignment in Moerbeke in 1923, where he died at age 33 after receiving Viaticum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edward Poppe |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poppe |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>