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Rupert Mayer (23 January 1876 – 1 November 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich. In 1987, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
Rupert Mayer (1876-1945) was a man who held firmly to his convictions. After the Stuttgart, Germany, native finished secondary school, he told his father that he wanted to be a Jesuit.
Nov 1, 2021 · Blessed Rupert Mayer was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1876. He studied theology and philosophy, became a priest and a Jesuit, and settled in Munich. When Germany entered World War I, he...
May 28, 2015 · Father Rupert Mayer, a WWI veteran, dedicated his life to preaching against the Third Reich. In WWII, Father Mayer is forced into Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where his faith and beliefs are only strengthened.
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Oct 26, 2016 · Learn about the life and legacy of Blessed Rupert Mayer, a Jesuit priest who survived two world wars and opposed the Nazi regime in Germany. He was a chaplain, a preacher, a leader of a Marian Congregation, and a prisoner of conscience.
Learn about the life and legacy of Father Rupert Mayer SJ, a Jesuit priest who resisted the Nazi regime and served the poor in Munich. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 and buried in St. Michael's Church.
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On May 16, 1937, the Gestapo ordered Fr Mayer to stop speaking in public which he obeyed but he continued to preach in church. Within two weeks, he was arrested and was imprisoned for six weeks before his trial where he was given a suspended sentence.
