Author : Brenda Gaydosh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Book Synopsis Seliger Bernhard Lichtenberg by : Brenda Gaydosh
Download or read book Seliger Bernhard Lichtenberg written by Brenda Gaydosh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Berlin, June 23, 1996, the Roman Catholic Church beatified German priest Bernhard Lichtenberg, a martyr of the Nazi era. Born at the height of Bismarck's Kulturkampf , Lichtenberg grew up amidst the German Church/State struggle, and he died because of his opposition to Nazi Germany. From fall 1938 until fall 1941, Dompropst Bernhard Lichtenberg offered daily prayers for the "non-Aryan Christians and persecuted Jews." In 1941, two young women reported Lichtenberg's "indiscretion." To keep Lichtenberg from using his dais as a "bully pulpit," the Nazis arrested him under the long considered dead Pulpit Paragraph and the 1933 Malice Law. After two years in Berlin prisons, a frail Lichtenberg died en route to the concentration camp Dachau. Lichtenberg's conscience guided his actions as he sacrificed his life for what he considered imperative Christian principles.