Description: Laminated Holy Card of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter Plus a Large 1 3/4" Silver Oxidized Miraculous Medal. Condition is "New". Shipped with USPS First Class. Blessed FranzJägerstätter (also spelled Jaegerstaetter in English) (20 May 1907 – 9 August1943) (born as Franz Huber) was an Austrian conscientious objector during WorldWar II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusal tofight for Nazi Germany. He was later declared a martyr and beatified by theCatholic Church. Jägerstätterwas born in Sankt Radegund, Upper Austria, a small village between Salzburg andBraunau am Inn. He was the child of Rosalia Huber, a chambermaid, and FranzBachmeier, a farmer. As his parents could not afford a marriage, Franz wasfirst cared for by his grandmother, Elisabeth Huber. His biological father waskilled in World War I when Franz was still a child. When his mother married in1917, Franz was adopted by her husband, Heinrich Jägerstätter. In hisyouth, Franz gained a reputation for being a wild fellow, but, in general, hisdaily life was like that of most Austrian peasants. He worked as a farmhand andalso as a miner in Eisenerz, until in 1933 he inherited the farmstead of hisadoptive father. In that same year, he fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter,Hildegard Auer. On Maundy Thursday of 1936, he married Franziska Schwaninger (4March 1913–16 March 2013), a deeply religious woman. After the wedding liturgy,the bridal couple proceeded on a pilgrimage to Rome, where they received a papalblessing from Pope Pius XI. Inspired by his wife, Jägerstätter began to studythe Bible and the lives of saints. The marriage produced three daughters:Maria, Louisi, and Rosi. When Germantroops moved into Austria in March 1938, Jägerstätter rejected the offeredposition as Radegund mayor. He was the only person in the village to voteagainst the Anschluss in the plebiscite of 10 April; nevertheless, the localauthorities suppressed his dissent and announced unanimous approval. He wasdismayed to witness many Catholics in his town supporting the Nazis, writing,"I believe there could scarcely be a sadder hour for the true Christianfaith in our country". Although he was not involved with any politicalorganization and did undergo one brief period of military training, he remainedopenly anti-Nazi. On 8 December 1940, he joined the Third Order of SaintFrancis and from summer 1941 worked as a sacristan at the local parish church,being deferred from military service four times. Drafted forthe first time on 17 June 1940, Jägerstetter, aged 33, was again conscriptedinto the German Wehrmacht in October and completed his training at the Ennsgarrison. He refused to take the Hitler oath, but could return home in 1941under an exemption as a farmer. Faced with his experiences in military service,the suppression of the church, as well as reports on the Nazi T4"euthanasia" program, he began to examine the morality of the war. Heeven proceeded to Linz to discuss this with his bishop but emerged from theconversation saddened that the episcopate seemed afraid to confront the issues. After manydelays, Jägerstätter was finally called to active duty on 23 February 1943. Bythis time, he had three daughters with his wife, the eldest not quite six. Hemaintained his position against fighting for Nazi Germany and upon enteringinto the Wehrmacht garrison in Enns on March 1 declared his conscientiousobjection. His offer to serve as a medic was ignored.[6] He was immediatelyarrested and placed in custody, first at the Linz remand prison, then from 4May at Berlin-Tegel. A priest from his village visited him in jail and tried totalk him into serving, but did not succeed. When he heard of the fate of the Austrianpriest Father Franz Reinisch, who had been executed for his refusal to take theHitler oath, he was determined to go the same way. Accused ofWehrkraftzersetzung (undermining of military morale), Jägerstätter wassentenced to death for sedition in a military trial at the Reichskriegsgerichtin Berlin-Charlottenburg on 6 July 1943. He was deported to Brandenburg-GördenPrison on 9 August, where he was executed by guillotine in the afternoon, age36. Jägerstätter's last recorded words before his death were, "I amcompletely bound in inner union with the Lord". After the war, in 1946,his ashes were buried at the Sankt Radegund cemetery. Jägerstätter wascriticized by his countrymen, especially by those who had served in themilitary, for failing in his duty as a husband and father. The municipality ofSankt Radegund at first refused to put his name on the local war memorial and apension for his widow was not approved until 1950. Jägerstätter'sfate was not well known until 1964, when US sociologist Gordon Zahn publishedhis biography, In Solitary Witness. Thomas Merton, the famed Trappist monk andpeace activist, included a chapter about Franz Jägerstätter in his book Faithand Violence (1968). A 1971 film treatment of his life made for Austriantelevision, Verweigerung ("The Refusal") (originally titled Der FallJägerstätter), by director Axel Corti starred Kurt Weinzierl. A bronze plaquewith his quotation about conscientious objection was dedicated at the PacifistMemorial in Sherborn, Massachusetts in 1994. His case was a topic of the annualBraunauer Zeitgeschichte-Tage conference in 1995. The death sentence wasnullified by the Landgericht Berlin on 7 May 1997. A Stolperstein forJägerstätter in Sankt Radegund was laid in 2006. In June2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic exhortation declaring Jägerstättera martyr. On 26 October 2007, he was beatified in a ceremony held by CardinalJosé Saraiva Martins at the New Cathedral in Linz.[8] His feast day is the dayof his baptism, 21 May. Thedocumentary, Franz Jaegerstaetter: A Man of Conscience, was released in 2011. A film aboutJägerstätter, A Hidden Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick, premieredin May 2019 at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, and was given a general releasein the US on December 13, 2019. The film is inspired by the book titled FranzJägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison, edited by Jägerstätterbiographer Erna Putz, with Malick acquiring its adaptation
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