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Shortly after the service, the Dean was dismissed for anti-quisling activity. Three weeks later the seven bishops of Norway resigned their offices. On Easter Sunday all but 64 of the Church's 861 pastors mounted their pulpits to announce their own resignations. With this magnificent declaration of independence...
In the 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...
"To Fear We Need Not Yield." On Feb. 1, 1942, after two years in the background, Vidkun Quisling was reinstated as puppet dictator of Norway in a gaudy Wagnerian ceremony in Oslo's Akershus Castle. The people of Oslo stayed away from the ceremony. But in Trondheim Norwegians by...
The 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 hut.
As other European countries have been liberated, tale after tale has been told of churchmen's heroic resistance, of the people's renewed faith. Still-unliberated Norway has its heroic tales still to tell, when it is safe for free men to speak. But it is known that...