On 3/16/2016 Franziska Jagerstatter died at the age of 100. She supported her husband Franz’s refusal to serve in Hitler’s army, becoming the only Austrian Catholic executed as a conscientious objector. Honoring his conscience, she said, “We helped one another go forth in faith.”
Conversation
“I have lost a good husband and exemplary father..However, the loving God ordained things otherwise ...I already look forward to our reunion in heaven where no war can longer separate us.” After his beatification: “It was a long Good Friday. But I feel I am closer to Easter now.”
1
8
34
Discover more
Sourced from across Twitter
I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
Quote Tweet
Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
Show this thread
11
42
147