Josef Mayr-Nusser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Mayr-Nusser

20th-century Italian Catholic

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1910

Place of Birth: Bolzano, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1945

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Blessed Josef Mayr-Nusser (27 December 1910 – 24 February 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic who served as the President of the Saint Vincent de Paul Conference of the Bolzano division as well as a member of Catholic Action.
He is known best for refusing to recite the Hitler oath after he was drafted as a Nazi soldier and was sentenced to death at the Dachau concentration camp.
He died en route to the camp in 1945.
He is known as the "Martyr of the First Commandment".Mayr-Nusser was hailed for living his life according to the tenets of the Gospel and of Saint Vincent de Paul and his cause of sainthood was introduced in 2005 upon local demand; he had the title Servant of God once the cause was initiated.
Pope Francis approved his beatification on 8 July 2016 and he was beatified in Bolzano on 18 March 2017 as announced on the very same day.