Thinking about Catholic anti-Nazis. This is Fr. Joseph Kentenich, Palottine priest, founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, & author of Marian devotions. He languished in Dachau during the war for his resistance, saying “My mission is to reveal the inner emptiness of Nazism.”

Fr. Franz Reinisch, a Palottine and member of Schoenstatt, he was killed for refusing to swear allegiance to Hitler. His final gift to his parents was the Eucharist, wrapped in a cloth, with a note: “Love and suffering into joy, F Reinisch.” He was an example to F Jägerstätter.

Bl Sr Maria Kafka was a Franciscan nun & nurse. She was arrested by the gestapo & executed for refusing to remove crucifixes from her hospital & for dictating a poem mocking Hitler. In prison she wrote: “It does not matter how far we are separated from everything.”

Bl Fr Jakob Gapp was a Marianist, socialist, & WWI Veteran executed by the Nazis. His opposition was so intense that Himmler refused to allow his family to retrieve his remains. In 1938, he wrote: “Shepherds must remain with their people when danger threatens.”

Bl Fr Otto Neurer was a teacher arrested after trying to convince a girl to not marry a man of “questionable morals.” He was hanged upside down at Buchenwald, the 1st priest to die in a Nazi concentration camp. In internment, he shared his rations & performed an illicit baptism.

Fr Karel Kašpar was the archbishop of Prague until his 1941 death in nazi custody after being arrested multiple times. He refused to disallow pilgrimages as requested by the Nazi authorities.

Fr Josef Beran, later archbishop of Prague and a cardinal was labelled a “religious radical” after saying mass for Czech prisoners of war. He was interned in a concentration camp. He ensured the circulation of “Mit Brennender Sorge” in Czech, supporting its anti-racist message.

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find it, but if someone can, I’d be happy to translate it from german.

Actually some of it seems to be here:

https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienR/Restituta_Kafka.html

I can try to translate it later.

Amazing! I hope you’re recovering well, Fr.