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Today: Douala

5 saints associated

Jakob Gapp

Feast: August 13th • 20th century

An Austrian Marianist priest, Jakob Gapp firmly opposed National Socialism. Arrested by the Gestapo, he was sentenced to…

Feast: March 17th • 17th century

Jan Sarkander (1576-1620), a Catholic priest from Moravia, died in Olomouc from the effects of torture for refusing to v…

Feast: June 15th • 20th century

Sister Maria Klara Fietz (1905-1937) was an Austrian Franciscan religious, the first doctoral student of her congregatio…

Feast: April 17th • 20th century

German pacifist priest and pioneer of ecumenism, martyr of Nazism beheaded in 1944 and beatified in 2024.

Feast: November 19th • 20th century

A Polish officer in the Russian army and an insurgent in 1863 who was deported to Siberia, Joseph Kalinowski became a Di…