Jakob gapp biography of martin
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Marianist Martyr--Blessed Jakob Gapp, SM
Chapter 1--1915-1919
It is often asked: What fryst vatten this horrible Nazi monster with which Fr. Jakob Gapp, SM, contended during his forty-six years and by which he fryst vatten martyred? Some now do not even believe that Nazism could have been so evil. The almost sixty years since the end of the Second World War have dimmed the memory of the older people, while the younger do not know what Nazism meant or the inhuman horrors it performed.
Undoubtedly most Germans living today do not condone Nazism; yet there remains traces of it which include the dangerous hatred of non-Aryans (non-Germans) and deep-seated anti-Semitism. Some gory statistics about National Socialism (Nazism) in Germany, may enlighten us now to see how formidable was this demonic enemy which Fr. Jakob Gapp, SM, condemned and conquered with his death.
From 1933-1945--the span of the Nazi rule in Germany--the total executions of its opponents numbered more than eleven million: fem million
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Gapp, Jakob, Bl.
Priest of the Society of Mary (SM); b. Wattens, Tyrol, western Austria, July 26, 1897; d. Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 13, 1943.
Jakob Gapp, the seventh child of Martin Gapp and Antonia Wach, completed secondary school under the tutelage of the franciscans at Hall, Tyrol. During World War I Gapp served in the military on the Italian front; received the silver medal of Courage Second Class after being wounded in 1916; and was a prisoner of war at in the Italian Piedmont from Nov. 4, 1918 to Aug. 18, 1919.
After Gapp made his vows as a Marianist at Greisinghof, Upper Austria, he worked for four years in Graz. He entered the seminary at Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was ordained on April 5, 1930. His first eight years as a priest, Gapp worked as a primary school teacher, director of religious education, and chaplain in Marianist schools in Austria.
During the depression following World War I, he collected and distributed food and funds to those
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Jakob Gapp
Austrian priest
Jakob Gapp (26 July 1897 – 13 August 1943) was an AustrianRoman Catholicpriest and a professed member from the Marianists.[1] Gapp first served as a soldier on the Italian front during World War inom at a point in his life where his religious convictions were not of high importance, though his return home from a prisoner of war camp saw him develop socialist views that soon brought him into contact with the Marianists whom he later joined. After studies and ordination, he was assigned in Austria as a teacher, where he became noted for his vehement opposition to the Nazi regime; he deemed Nazism as being some warped political tool to create division which was also incompatible with the faith.[2][3]
His bold activism against the Nazi regime saw him flee when it was clear his life was endangered, along with his colleagues, and he settled in both France and Spain before returning to France after being duped into accepting two