At which moated castle in the Oldenburg Münsterland was Clemens August Graf von Galen born in 1878?
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Dinklage Castle
He was the eleventh of 13 children of an old Westphalian noble family.
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Clemens August von Galen
Galen as Bishop of Münster.
Which diocese did Galen lead as bishop from 1933?
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Münster
Before that he had spent over 20 years as a pastor in Berlin and as parish priest of St Lambert's in Münster.
Which 1937 papal encyclical against the Nazi state did Galen help prepare?
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Mit brennender Sorge
It was printed in secret and read out in every Catholic church in Germany on Palm Sunday 1937.
Which Nazi murder programme did Galen publicly preach against on 3 August 1941?
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Aktion T4
By August 1941 more than 70,000 sick and disabled people had been murdered in gas chambers.
💡 Did you know? Galen even filed a criminal complaint for murder with the Münster public prosecutor; it had no consequences.
Which armed force dropped Galen's sermons over Germany as leaflets?
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the Royal Air Force
Inside the Reich, too, the sermons were secretly copied and passed on: the White Rose quoted them.
Which animal is in the nickname Galen received after his sermons?
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lion
Supporters called him the “Lion of Münster”, for his courage and his imposing height of almost two metres.
To what did Pope Pius XII elevate Galen in February 1946?
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cardinal
Romans cheered him at the ceremony. A few days after his return he died of a ruptured appendix.
In which year was Galen beatified?
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2005
The beatification took place in St Peter's Basilica in October 2005, shortly after Benedict XVI took office.
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