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Last week the church revealed that the man in the disguise was none other than its primate, Bishop Eivind Berggrav. During most of the years when Himmler's quislings congratulated themselves that Bishop Berggrav was safely behind bars, he was actually leading one of occupied Europe's most successful undergrounds...
...Bishop Berggrav first used his famed persuasive powers on his own guards -and converted them. This enabled him to move outside his cottage. He then ran the underground church through a coded information system which cobwebbed Norway. (He corresponded regularly with Bishop Gustaf Aulen in Sweden, signing his letters "Dr. Kattman" and discussing religious subjects in medical language.) Exactly three years from the day he was interned, Bishop Berggrav escaped with the aid of his chief guard (TIME, May 7). He boarded a train for Oslo, got off a few stations before the city, was met by Swedish Consul Leif...
Your cover picture of Norway's great Bishop Berggrav (TIME, Dec. 25) was one of the most deeply moving and eloquent bits of artistry I've ever seen. The lighting, subtly transforming prison wire into the Star of wonder and light, is sheer genius...
Here at "Little Norway" there is everywhere a close spiritual link with Bishop Berggrav and the church martyrs of Norway (TiME, Dec. 25). I know, for it has been my job (in Public Relations and as assistant to the Commanding Officer of the Norwegian Air Force) for three and a half years to hear the stories of Norway's martyrdom firsthand. At night, in the bare, cold barracks, in darkness except for the light shining on my notebook, I have recorded hundreds of stories that might have inspired such a spiritual as Were You There When They Crucified...
These things, this Christmas Day in his log-cabin prison, Eivind Berggrav surely knows...