A song for blessed Engelmar Unzeitig CMM.
BrianNonde on Feb 22, 2017 Composed and sung by Fr. Alfons Voorn CMM
B. Engelmar Uzeitig: Professed priest in the Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill, ordained in 1939 and taking the name Engelmar. Parish priest in Glöckelberg, Czech Republic. Arrested by the Gestapo on 21 April 1941 for the crime of being a priest and preaching against the teachings of the Nazis, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp where he ministered to other prisoners. He learned Russian so he could minister to prisoners from Eastern Europe. He volunteered to tend to prisoners suffering from typhoid and died of the disease himself.
Born
1 March 1911 in Czech Republic as Hubert Unzeitig
Died
2 March 1945 in Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany of typhoid fever
Venerated
3 July 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of heroic virtues)
Beatified
24 September 2016 by Pope Francis
beatification celebrated in the Cathedral of Sankt Kilian, Würzburg, Germany, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato
catholicsaints.info/blessed-engelmar-unzeitig/
BrianNonde on Feb 22, 2017 Composed and sung by Fr. Alfons Voorn CMM
B. Engelmar Uzeitig: Professed priest in the Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill, ordained in 1939 and taking the name Engelmar. Parish priest in Glöckelberg, Czech Republic. Arrested by the Gestapo on 21 April 1941 for the crime of being a priest and preaching against the teachings of the Nazis, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp where he ministered to other prisoners. He learned Russian so he could minister to prisoners from Eastern Europe. He volunteered to tend to prisoners suffering from typhoid and died of the disease himself.
Born
1 March 1911 in Czech Republic as Hubert Unzeitig
Died
2 March 1945 in Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany of typhoid fever
Venerated
3 July 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of heroic virtues)
Beatified
24 September 2016 by Pope Francis
beatification celebrated in the Cathedral of Sankt Kilian, Würzburg, Germany, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato
catholicsaints.info/blessed-engelmar-unzeitig/