Jakob Gapp
Austrian priest (1897-1943)
Feast: 13 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Berlin, at Plötzensee in Germany, Blessed Jakob Gapp, priest of the Society of Mary and martyr, who firmly proclaimed that the impious decisions of a regime hostile to human and Christian dignity could in no way be reconciled with Christian doctrine; for this he was persecuted and condemned to exile in France and Spain and, arrested by enemy agents, was finally beheaded.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 13 August as a Marianist priest and martyr beheaded at Plötzensee for opposing a regime hostile to Christian doctrine.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 13 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q875921 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Jakob Gapp (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.