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Carl Lampert
Austrian priest
Feast: 13 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Carl Lampert was born at Göfis in Vorarlberg, Austria, on 9 January 1894 and ordained at Brixen in May 1918. He became pro-vicar of the Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck-Feldkirch.
An opponent of the Nazi regime, he was arrested, tried on a charge of espionage and sentenced to be beheaded with two other priests. He was executed in 1944.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who would not bow to Nazism and died a martyr for it.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Carl Lampert
- Wikidata Q114488 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Carl Lampert (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.