Franz Stock
Catholic priest, wartime chaplain and peace activist (1904–1948)
Who they were
Franz Stock (21 September 1904, Neheim – 24 February 1948, Paris) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He is known for ministering to prisoners in France during World War II, and to German prisoners of war in the years following. The cause for his beatification has been accepted by the Holy See.
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The miracles
A cause for canonisation has been opened, which is what Servant of God means. Heroic virtue has not yet been declared and no miracle has been examined.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Archdiocese of Paderborn - Abbe Franz Stock — Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker opened his beatification process at Neheim in November 2009; the acts went to Rome in 2013 and he is a Servant of God.
- Wikidata Q76181 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Franz Stock (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.