Bernhard Lichtenberg

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg (December 3, 1875 - November 5, 1943) was a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian, awarded the title righteous among the Nations. Lichtenberg was born in Ohlau (O awa), Prussian Silesia, near Breslau (Wroc aw), and studied theology in Innsbruck, Austria. He was then ordained priest in 1899. Lichtenberg began his ministry in Berlin in 1900 as parson in Charlottenburg. For a time he also was a member of the local parliament for the Centre Party. In 1931, the bishop of Berlin appointed him as Canon of the Cathedral Chapter of St Hedwig and in 1938 provost of the cathedral and committed him to help Jews. After the Kristallnacht, the first organized Nazi pogrom in Germany, he used to pray publicly for Jews at Evening prayer.