On this day 75 years ago, Bd Jakob Gapp, Marianist priest was beheaded by the Nazis on charges of treason. He had instructed his students to love all people. "God, not Adolf Hitler, is your God," he proclaimed. With help from friends he escaped to Spain...
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He was lured back to France by Gestapo agents posing as catechumens--then arrested and transported to Germany. During interrogation he defended his faith so boldly that Heinrich Himmler voiced regret that there were not more Germans equally committed to National Socialism.
Jeez, is this the time of year that they were killing the religious, or were they just killing so many people the first of August that the religious were swept up too?
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Look to yesterday when the police parked a truck filled with sneakers outside a housing complex with intent to lure. Reminding me what Francis said: "God does not lead, (lure/bait) us into temptation." During His interrogations before Satan & Pilate...He too said:
God is God!...