Today is the feast of Blessed Otto Neururer: Austrian Catholic priest, opponent of Nazism, and martyr\u2014tortured 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/em> (in hatred of the faith). He was beatified by St John Paul II in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read this brief biography of Blessed Otto Neururer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the feast of Blessed Otto Neururer: Austrian Catholic priest, opponent of Nazism, and martyr\u2014tortured 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 … Continue reading Blessed Otto Neururer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36321,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319\/revisions\/36321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}