Word: stellbrink
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...them, as for many of the martyrs, the old denominational hostilities crumpled before the reality of their common fate and common cause. "We are like brothers," Lange said of their relationship. And when Stellbrink stepped up to the guillotine, he told his Catholic companions: "Auf Wiedersehen im Himmel." So close was their relationship that one Catholic priest has proposed that all four be presented to Rome for canonization...
...faith-and similarly many towns in modern Germany have their heroes, many of them virtually unknown outside the country. Lübeck, for example, conducts interdenominational religious services every year honoring three Catholic priests, Edward Müller, Hermann Lange and Johannes Prassek, and an Evangelical pastor, Karl Friedrich Stellbrink. Arrested in 1942, the four men became good friends in prison and died together at Hamburg in November...
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