Clemens August Graf von Galen
The Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a German count, Bishop of Mnster, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. During World War II, von Galen led Catholic protest against Nazi euthanasia and denounced Gestapo lawlessness and the persecution of the church. He was appointed a Cardinal by Pope Pius XII in 1946. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
Von Galen belonged to one of the oldest and most distinguished noble families of Westphalia, and was born in the Catholic southern part of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , on the Burg Dinklage, now in the state of Lower Saxony. The von Galen name had a presence in the region since 1667, when Christoph Bernhard von Galen was named the first bishop of Mnster after suppressing the Anabaptists, leaving the bodies of the heretics to rot in cages lining the citys gates. Clemens August was the eleventh of thirteen children, the son of Count Ferdinand Heribert von Galen, a member of the Imperial German parliament for the Catholic Centre Party, and Elisabeth von Spee.
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