BL. JOSEF MAYR-NUSSER

BL. JOSEF MAYR-NUSSER - 24 FEBRUARY

BLESSED JOSEF MAYR-NUSSER

Blessed Josef Mayr was born on December 27, 1910 at the Nusserhof on Bozen soil. Raised in a religious environment, Mayr-Nusser joined the Catholic Young Men of his diocese (Archdiocese of Trento) and was soon elected their president.

After the option agreement, Mayr-Nusser decided to stay and joined the Andreas-Hofer-Bund, a South Tyrolean resistance group. On May 26, 1942 he married Hildegard Straub (1907-1998) and they had a son, Albert Mayr.

After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht and the establishment of the Alpine foothills operations zone, Mayr-Nusser was drafted into the German military in 1944. After refusing to take the SS oath in Konitz on October 4, 1944 for reasons of conscience, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp. On the way there, Josef Mayr-Nusser died on February 24, 1945 in a cattle car near Erlangen as a result of imprisonment and starvation. He was beatified in 2017.

PRAYER:

May the intercession of Blessed Josef commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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