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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day August 12 Blessed Karl Leisner Blessed Karl Leisner, Priest and Martyr Blessed Charles Mahony, Priest and Martyr Saint Diomeda, Martyr Saint Dynamus, Bishop of Angoulême Engelburga, Empress Saint Enoch, Patriarch of Jerusalem Saint Eunomia, Martyr Saint Euplius, Deacon and Martyr   Saint Eusebius, Bishop of Milan Gerard II., Bishop of Arras and Cambrai Saint Herculanus, Bishop of Brescia Hortulana, Widow Blessed Innocent XI., Pope Saint Jambert, Archbishop of Canterbury Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, Widow Saint Muredach, Bishop   Sixtus IV., Pope Saint Anicetus and Companions, Martyrs Saints Gracilian and Felicissima, Martyrs Saints Macarius and Julian, Martyrs Martyrs of Augsburg Saint Porcarius and Companions, Martyrs -1208-

    ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST   Saints celebrated on the 12th of August WELCOME! BLESSED KARL LEISNER, PRIEST AND MARTYR Blessed Karl Leisner was born on February 28, 1915 and in 1934 he entered the seminary [...] He spent six months in compulsory agricultural work during which, despite Nazi opposition, he organised Sunday Mass for his fellow workers. His home was raided by the Gestapo, who seized his diaries and papers. These meticulously preserved documents tell how the spiritual young man became a religious leader. On March 25, 1939, Leisner was ordained deacon. HE WAS ARRESTED Then, during a medical examination, the doctor told him that he had contracted tuberculosis. He was sent to a sanatorium in the Black Forest, where he began to recover but it was during his recovery that a fellow patient heard him criticise Hitler. The Gestapo arrested him on November 9, 1939. He was initially imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but was moved to Dachau on D...