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Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878-1946), German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. An outspoken critic of the Nazi regime, he issued forceful, public denunciations of the Third Reich's euthanasia programs and persecution of the Catholic Church, making him one of the most visible and unrelenting internal voices of dissent against the National Socialists. A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a countess (for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). ...
A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ...
A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ...
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Euthanasia (Greek: ευθανασία, good death) is the practice of killing a person or animal, in a painless or minimally painful way, for merciful reasons, usually to end their suffering. ...
 Foto Clemens August Graf von Galen He was also known as a German nationalist and anti-communist who favoured the Second World War against Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...
In 1945 he told international press that although he and others had been opposed to nazism, it was their duty to be loyal to their fatherland and thus consider the Allies their enemies.
He spent the rest of his life forcefully condemning Allied crimes during the occupation of Germany and the terror of expulsion from Eastern Germany.
Unexpectedly, in the Christmas of 1945 it became known that Pope Pius XII would appoint three new German cardinals, of them Bishop von Galen, who was made a Cardinal on February 18, 1946. He interpreted it as "a sign of the love of the Pope for our poor German people. Before all world he has, as a supranational and impartial observer, recognized the German people as equal in the society of nations". On his travel to Rome, he visited nearly all POW camps on his way and told the German soldiers to be brave, and he smuggled a large number of messages to their families.
Following his return from the cumbersome travel to Rome the new cardinal was celebrated enthusiastically in his native Westphalia. He died few days after his return from Rome in the St. Franziskus Hospital of Münster. His last words were: Wie Gott es will. Gott lohne es Euch. Gott schütze das liebe Vaterland. Oh, Du lieber Heiland!. He was buried in the family crypt of the Galen family in the destroyed Cathedral of Münster.
Cardinal von Galen belonged to one of the oldest og most distinguished noble families of Westphalia, and was born in the catholic, southern part of the Duchy of Oldenburg (Oldenburger Münsterland), on the Burg Dinklage. He was son of Count Ferdinand Heribert von Galen, a member of the German parliament for the Catholic Centre Party, and Elisabeth von Spee.
A Paper of Foreign Office called him "the most outstanding personality among the clergy in the British zone.... Statuesque in appearance and uncompromising in discussion, this oak-bottomed old aristocrat ... is a German nationalist through and through." The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. ...
The cause for Beatification was concluded positively in November 2004, and was he was beatified on October 9, 2005 in St. Peter's Basilica of Rome. In Catholicism, beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed, via Greek μακαÏιος, makarios) is a recognition accorded by the church of a dead persons accession to Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name (intercession of saints). ...
The Basilica of Saint Peter, officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and colloquially called Saint Peters Basilica, ranks second among the five major basilicas of Rome and its Vatican City enclave. ...
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