ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 22nd of March WELCOME! BLESSED CLEMENS AUGUST GRAF VON GALEN, BISHOP OF MÜNSTER Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was born of aristocratic ancestry on March 16 , 1878 at Dinklage Castle, Dinklage, Oldenburg, Germany. His motto was: Nec laudibus nec timore (neither by flattery nor by fear) "NEITHER BY FLATTERY NOR BY FEAR" He was ordained a priest and afterwards worked in Berlin at St Matthias. He intensely disliked the liberal values of the Weimar Republic and opposed individualism, socialism, and democracy. A staunch German nationalist and patriot, he considered the Treaty of Versailles unjust and viewed Bolshevism as a threat to Germany and the Church. He espoused the stab-in-the-back theory: that the German military was defeated in 1918 only because it had been undermined by defeatist elements on the home front. He expressed his opposition to secularism in his book Die Pest des Laizismus und ihre Erscheinungsfo...