Nikolaus Gross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolaus Gross

German resistance fighter

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1898

Place of Birth: Niederwenigern, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1945

Profession: resistance fighter, trade unionist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Blessed Nikolaus Gross (German: Groß) (30 September 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a German Roman Catholic.
Gross first worked in professions requiring skilled labor before becoming a coal miner like his father while joining a range of trade union and political movements.
But he soon settled on becoming a journalist before he got married while World War II prompted him to become a resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich and for his anti-violent rhetoric and approach to opposing Adolf Hitler.
He was also one of those implicated and arrested for the assassination attempt on Hitler despite not being involved himself.His cause for sainthood saw it acknowledged that Gross had died in 1945 "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith) which allowed for Pope John Paul II to preside over the beatification for the murdered journalist on 7 October 2001 in Saint Peter's Square.