| On 19th April 2006 at 8 pm, mementos of Joannes Baptista Sproll, Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and of Eugen Bolz will be handed over to the Basilica of St.Bartholomew on the Tiberine Isle, place of custody for the memory of witnesses to faith of the 20th century. The ceremony will be led by the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Msg Gebhard Fürst. The two witnesses to faith were Germans living under Nazism. Bishop Sproll opposed Nazism and was forced into exile. Eugen Bolz, a Catholic politician, was imprisoned on Hitler’s orders a few months after his accession to power, and was killed in prison in Berlin. |
