Hermann Lange, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany
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Place of Birth: Leer, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Hermann Lange
- The Blessed Hermann Lange (16 April 1912 – 10 November 1943) was a Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany.
- He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other LĂĽbeck martyrs.
- Lange was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.Lange along with two Catholic priest colleagues – Johannes Prassek and Eduard Müller – along with Lutheran Pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink, spoke publicly against the Nazis – initially discreetly – distributing pamphlets to friends and congregants.
- They copied and distributed the anti-Nazi sermons of Bishop Clemens August von Galen of MĂĽnster.
- Then, following a March 28, 1942 RAF airraid, after which Stellbrink tended wounded, he delivered a Palm Sunday sermon which attributed the bombing to divine punishment.
- Stellbrink was arrested, followed by the three Catholic priests, and each were sentenced to death.
- The mingling of the blood of the four guillotined martyrs has become a symbol of German Ecumenism.
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