Word: meisser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference in religion. One phrase stuck. "Our church has been violated!" cried Bishop Hans Meisser...
...wildly enthusiastic crowd hustled the brave Bishop into his automobile, swept the police and S. S. troops aside, trotted beside the car all the way to his house shouting "Heil Meisser! Pfui Müller!" Another crowd stayed by the church, solemnly chanting Martin Luther's great "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott...
...city Munich is almost 90% Catholic. Spiritually as well as physically the green-topped towers of Cardinal Faulhaber's cathedral dwarf Bishop Meisser's St. Matthew's. But Catholics in Bavaria fear for their freedom of worship no less deeply than Protestants. Next day more "Protestants" than the oldest Münchner could remember were on the streets...
...only was Bishop Meisser deposed and placed under arrest, but a long list of other pastors was forbidden to preach. Henceforth Bishop Meisser's old diocese would be split in two and the Bishop's duties assigned to two Nazi-appointed commissioners...
...until next day did Munich learn that Bishop Meisser had been deposed by force. That night crowds streamed to the Bishop's palace and broke through the gates. "Heil Meisser! Heil Meisser!" they roared. After an interval the Bishop appeared at an upper window. He had scarcely opened his mouth to speak before someone seized him by the coattails and yanked him back out of sight. A few minutes later his wife appeared in his place...