Sophie Scholl
Known as "The soul of resistance".
Stand up for what you believe in
even if you are standing alone.
An end in terror is preferable
to terror without end.
born 9 May 1921, died 22 February 1943
Founder of the White Rose
Franz Jägerstätter
"Holy Disobedience"
I'm convinced that it is still best that I
speak the truth even if it costs me my life.
For you will not find it written in any of the commandments of God or of the Church that a man is obliged under pain of sin to take an oath
committing him to obey whatever might be commanded of him by a secular ruler.
born 20 May 1907, died 9 August 1943
Documentary: https://youtu.be/WDvW42iSeVs
Edith Stein
Code name Kant
"The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of
which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church."
born 12 October 1891, died 9 August 1942
Documentary: https://youtu.be/OTbuuMeoD_o
Maximilian
Kolbe
Call sign SP3RN That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith.
Then she came to me holding two
crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.
born 8 January 1894, died 14 August 1941
Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEhuT_KK-1I
English translation: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Maximilian-Kolbe-Christoph-Waltz/dp/B00LWB95UW
Willi Graf
"Loyalty"
My favorite bible verse: Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
(Letter of James 1:22)
"Becoming a Christian is perhaps the hardest thing because we never are and can only be a little bit at the sight of death."
(From the June- letter to Anneliese)
born 2 January 1918, died 12 October 1943
Documentary: https://youtu.be/reG3c1KvIpk
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Link:
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Rede des Robert J. Kennedy, 28. August 2020
13:12 "If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for our authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people are that created them.
Once you create them, they will be abused!"
Glauben und Kirche in Zeiten von Verwirrung und staatlich angeordneter Fesselung/ Knebelung.
Ein Beitrag von Hans- Joerg Karrenbrock,
Webmaster der Pfarrgemeinde St Nikloai im Sausal