FRANZ JAGERSTATTER Letters and Writings from Prison Edited by ERNA PUTZ

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Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer, devoted husband and father, and devout Catholic, was executed in 1943 for refusing to serve in the Nazi army. Before taking this Jagerstatter had consulted both his pastor and his local bishop, who instructed him to do his duty and to obey the law–an instruction that violated his conscience. For many Jagerstatter’s solitary witness was honored by the Catholic peace movement, while viewed with discomfort by many of his fellow Austrians. With his beatification in 2007 his example has been embraced by the universal church. Paper.