It did not materialize earlier due to aggravating circumstances such as the deaths of both her father and her brother, and Kaspers' poor economic status.
[1] Her canonization process launched in the 1940s and on 4 October 1974 she was named as Venerable; Pope Paul VI beatified her not long after on 16 April 1978.
[1] Kasper attended school in her hometown (from age six to fourteen though frail health often kept her at home) and helped in her parents' potato patch while also doing household chores such as spinning and weaving.
[2] They rented a room at the home of Matthias Müller and she did weaving for a meager living to support herself and her mother.
She wished to combine the contemplative spirit of Mary with and active life of Martha in the service of God.
[3] This would have meant leaving her home region, as there were no women's religious orders present due to secularization.
Yet there were still (male) members of these orders (from formerly existing monasteries) living in her area, e.g., Franciscans and Cistercians in nearby Montabaur.
The first local girls, who helped her to nurse children and the sick in the village, lived at their respective family homes.
The local mayor made a public announcement about the group, gave them some guidelines, and asked the villagers to make donations to them.
[5] Kasper suffered a heart attack on 27 January 1898 and died in Dernbach motherhouse at dawn of the Feast of the Presentation (2.
Her order now operates, besides Germany in countries across the world such as Brazil, Great Britain, India, Kenya, Netherland, Nigeria and Mexico.
[6] The formal introduction to the cause came on 3 February 1946 under Pope Pius XII and Kasper became titled as a Servant of God.
The miracle leading to her beatification was the healing of the sister Maria Herluka – of Kasper's order – from severe tuberculosis in September 1945.
On 20 October 2019 the Bishop of Limburg Georg Bätzing blessed a bell which was donated from Limburgian family dedicated to the new saint.
Selig, die arm sind vor Gott (Blessed the poor), commemorating her on the anniversary of her canonization.