Today is the feast of Blessed Otto Neururer: Austrian Catholic priest, opponent of Nazism, and martyr—tortured to death at Buchenwald concentration camp on this day in 1940, for performing a baptism but also for defending the sacrament of Marriage. He endured 34 hours hanging upside down, during which he prayed continually.
Though unknown to many in the USA, Blessed Otto stands out not only because of his opposition to Nazism, he is a clear witness to the truth of Jesus Christ and doing the right thing for the sheep under his care. Blessed Otto showed himself a pastor in to his fellow prisoners even baptizing a man due to die. Otto was killed in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith). He was beatified by St John Paul II in 1996.
Read this brief biography of Blessed Otto Neururer.