Last Catholic Priest to Survive Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp Dies Aged 102

[mdgspencer]

The remarkable thing about this priest is not when he died but what he did.The Nazis put him in Dachau concentration camp for serving Polish forced laborers by celebrating mass with them and hearing their confessions, branding him as “a fanatical proponent of the Catholic Church.” Escaping death, he then served as a priest in communist East Germany, where the communists were going to put him on trial, as he said, for the exact same reasons he was put into Dachau. In fact, fifteen spies were watching him. But then the communist regime fell. A man of great faith, he outlasted both the Nazis and the German communists and lived on for years afterwards.
see christiantoday.com/article/last.catholic.priest.to.survive.dachau.nazi.concentration.camp.dies.aged.102/88327.htm

 

[jaimeleglise]

Thank you for sharing. I hope he becomes a Saint someday.

 

[RPRPsych]

“Well done, good and faithful servant.”

 

[tawny]

Praying for the repose of the soul of this Servant of God.