Word: berggrav
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...were still skeptical. They wanted proof that all Norwegian Christians were facing in the same direction. Thanks to the Nazis, they soon got it. The puppet government ordered the Church to alter its Common Prayer, omitting the King's name and substituting those of the quisling authorities. Bishop Berggrav flatly refused...
...Great Forest." His defiance loosed an organized campaign of persecution, beginning with the arrest of Ronald Fangen, Christian leader and author, for an article published in Berggrav's magazine. Churchmen protested vigorously, and the people of Norway, whose lives are lived among the tall pines that point toward heaven, began to talk of their clergy as "The Great Forest...
...Great Forest" was afire with indignation, and its flames licked into every corner of the land. From pulpit after pulpit the letter was read, in defiance of police on hand to prevent it. Printing presses throughout Norway ran off copies by thousands. Said Bishop Berggrav: "When the truth becomes something sacred for us, it is then that it can create martyrs." Abashed by the Church's readiness for martyrdom and fearful of popular uprisings in its defense, the puppet government eased its campaign of terror and suppression...
...summer of 1941. with the declaration of Hitler's holy war against the godless Bolsheviks, Minister Skancke looked hopefully to the Church for support. What he got instead was a cool remark from Berggrav that at the bishops' meeting "the war-political question . . . naturally was not among the matters discussed." The puppet press broke into a rash of vilification and Vidkun Quisling screamed: "Religion is outdated." The final break was near...
...Peace of Heaven. On April 9, Führer Quisling ordered the arrest of Bishop Berggrav and four other leaders of the Christian Council. The five were thrown into Grini concentration camp. A week later Berggrav was removed to solitary confinement in his forest...