Otto Neururer
Catholic priest (1882–1940)
Feast: 13 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Otto Neururer was born on 25 March 1882 at Piller, a mountain village in the Tyrol, the twelfth child of humble millers and farmers. Ordained in 1907, he served as curate in seven parishes and taught religion at St James's, Innsbruck, from 1917 to 1932, and then became parish priest of Götzens.
He persuaded a young Catholic woman not to enter a sham marriage with an already-married follower of the Nazi regime, and was imprisoned for it. In the camp he kept up his ministry in secret despite every hardship, until he was martyred in 1940.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A parish priest who defended the sanctity of marriage and died a martyr for it.
The cause
Otto Neururer has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Postulation for the cause of Blessed Otto Neururer.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Otto Neururer
- Wikidata Q87557 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Otto Neururer (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.