You may not have noticed this in the news of late, but Fr. Carl Lampert was beatified four days ago in his native country, Austria.
Bl. Fr. Lampert was a diocesan priest of the diocese of Innsbruck Feldkirch in Austria. When the Nazi persecution began in 1939, he was arrested three times and sent to the Dachau concentration camp. On February 4, 1943 he was arrested along with forty others and accused of high treason, espionage and other crimes. Together with two other priests, Fr. Herbert Simoleit and Fr. Friedrich Lorenz, he was beheaded on November 13, 1944. He died speaking the names of Jesus and Mary.
The Catholic News Agency (www.catholicnewsagency.com) has an article you can read about him.
Blessed Carl, pray for us!
