Michelle Duppong (January 25, 1984 – December 25, 2015) was an American Catholic laywoman who served as the Director of Adult Faith Formation for the Diocese of Bismarck before dying of cancer at the age of 31.
[3] Michelle Christine Duppong was born in Wheat Ridge, Colorado[4] to a Catholic family on January 25, 1984, later moving to Haymarsh, North Dakota at the age of 1.
[5] After graduating high school, Duppong enrolled in North Dakota State University, where she earned a degree in horticulture in 2006.
[6] She was known for being a mentor towards students and showing kindness to many around her, even helping influence men to join the priesthood and women to become religious sisters.
[11] On All Saints Day of that year, her cause for beatification was opened based on her reported holiness as well as miracles being granted through her intercession, including the healing of a woman with the same type of cancer as Duppong had.