A Hidden Life Hides Too Much of Franz Jägerstätter's Life
Feb 18, 2020 · In 1965, Fr. Thomas Merton reviewed In Solitary Witness for the PAX Bulletin in a piece entitled “An Enemy of the State,” and the piece reached a wider audience when Merton included it in his 1968 book Faith and Violence. Merton observed that Jägerstätter’s witness raised the question of “the Church’s own mission of protest and ...
Thomas Merton III Solitary Witness, by Gord on Zahn. (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1964.) 42s. On August 9th, 1943, the Austrian peasant Franz Jagerstatter was beheaded by the German military authorities as an "enemy of the State" because he had …
Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison
Sep 16, 2009 · In an essay that he wrote in 1942, "On Today's Issue: Catholic or National Socialist," Franz Jägerstätter recalls a dream that he had ... "I saw [in a dream] a wonderful train as it came around a mountain. With little regard for the adults, children flowed to this train and were not held back.
Franz Jagerstatter – Austrian Martyr [Feast Day – May 21]
May 21, 2018 · Thomas Merton, the famed Trappist monk and peace activist, included a chapter about Franz Jägerstätter in his book Faith and Violence (1968).
The cover image by Mike Quirke is a portrait of Franz Jagerstatter who was a conscientious objector duri ng World War II and who was sentenced to death and executed for his refusal to fight for Nazi Germany.
Blessed Franz Jagerstatter---He refused to say "Yes"
Jul 13, 2023 · That book was followed by the renowned Trappist, Thomas Merton, writing a chapter about Franz in one of his books, Faith and Violence. Eventually, Franz's story weaved its way to the Vatican and came before Pope Benedict XVI.
Faithful Heroes: Franz Jagerstatter, Stood up to the Nazis
Jan 23, 2018 · His story was not well known until a U.S. sociologist, Gordon Zahn, published his biography, In Solitary Witness, in 1964 and later Thomas Merton included a chapter about him in his 1968 book, Faith and Violence.
This film tells the story of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who was imprisoned and executed in 1943 for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler during World War Two. Merton mentions him twice in his journals. The first occasion is on 26 March 1962: Again moved by a little bit of information on Jagerstatter -
Thomas Merton, his great friend and perhaps the most prestigious Catho lic proponent of the "non-violent alternative" as a mark and measure of Christian spirituality. No one at all familiar with Merton's advocacy of non-violence can question that it …
Franz Jägerstätter - Wikipedia
Franz Jägerstätter, TOSF (also spelled Jaegerstaetter in English; born Franz Huber, 20 May 1907 – 9 August 1943) was an Austrian farmer and conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusal to fight for Nazi Germany.