Carmelite Procession at Dachau. C. Lynch on 23 Jun 2011 The Carmelite Convent, called Karmel Heilig-Blut...The convent, located just outside the north wall of the Memorial Site at Dachau.... Carmelite …More
Carmelite Procession at Dachau.
C. Lynch on 23 Jun 2011 The Carmelite Convent, called Karmel Heilig-Blut...The convent, located just outside the north wall of the Memorial Site at Dachau.... Carmelite nuns opened a convent just outside the main camp at Auschwitz, in a building formerly used by the SS as a theater, until they were forced to move because of Jewish protests.
Saints of Dachau Among the priest-martyrs who died at Dachau were many of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.[41] The Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder died of hunger and illness in 1942.[42] The Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite, died of a lethal injection in 1942. Blessed Alois Andritzki, a German priest, was given a lethal injection in 1943.[43] The Venerable Engelmar Unzeitig, a Czech priest died of typhoid in 1945.[44] The Venerable Giuseppe Girotti died at the camp in April 1945.[45]
Amid the Nazi persecution of the Tirolian Catholics, the Blessed Otto Neururer, a parish priest was sent to Dachau for "slander to the detriment of German marriage", after he advised a girl against marrying the friend of a senior Nazi. He was cruelly executed at Buchenwald in 1940 for conducting a baptism there. He was the first priest killed in the concentration camps.[46]
The Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg died en route to Dachau in 1943. In December 1944, the Blessed Karl Leisner, a deacon from Munster who was dying of tuberculosis received his ordination at Dachau. His fellow prisoner Gabriel Piguet, the Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand presided at the secret ceremony. Leisner died soon after the liberation of the camp.[47]
C. Lynch on 23 Jun 2011 The Carmelite Convent, called Karmel Heilig-Blut...The convent, located just outside the north wall of the Memorial Site at Dachau.... Carmelite nuns opened a convent just outside the main camp at Auschwitz, in a building formerly used by the SS as a theater, until they were forced to move because of Jewish protests.
Saints of Dachau Among the priest-martyrs who died at Dachau were many of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.[41] The Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder died of hunger and illness in 1942.[42] The Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite, died of a lethal injection in 1942. Blessed Alois Andritzki, a German priest, was given a lethal injection in 1943.[43] The Venerable Engelmar Unzeitig, a Czech priest died of typhoid in 1945.[44] The Venerable Giuseppe Girotti died at the camp in April 1945.[45]
Amid the Nazi persecution of the Tirolian Catholics, the Blessed Otto Neururer, a parish priest was sent to Dachau for "slander to the detriment of German marriage", after he advised a girl against marrying the friend of a senior Nazi. He was cruelly executed at Buchenwald in 1940 for conducting a baptism there. He was the first priest killed in the concentration camps.[46]
The Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg died en route to Dachau in 1943. In December 1944, the Blessed Karl Leisner, a deacon from Munster who was dying of tuberculosis received his ordination at Dachau. His fellow prisoner Gabriel Piguet, the Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand presided at the secret ceremony. Leisner died soon after the liberation of the camp.[47]
