Gerhard Hirschfelder
German priest (1907–1942)
Feast: 1 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Gerhard Hirschfelder (17 February 1907 – 1 August 1942) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He was a vocal critic of Nazism and used his sermons to condemn Nazi propaganda and other aspects of Nazism which drew suspicion on him from the authorities who monitored him and even interrogated him on occasion. He was a staunch supporter of the role of adolescents in the life of the Church and made them a focus in his pastoral activities. In his imprisonment he became a member of the Schoenstatt Movement.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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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 — Gerhard Hirschfelder — Vatican page for Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder (1907-1942), priest of Glatz who died at Dachau, beatified in 2010.
- Wikidata Q75540 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gerhard Hirschfelder (CC BY-SA)
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