Description: "The Lion of Münster: The Bishop Who Roared Against The Nazis" Blessed Clemens August von Galen was the first bishop named in Germany after Adolf Hitler took power. He became known as the Lion of Münster because of his outspoken criticism of the Nazis. In 1941, at the height of Germany's success in World War II, he predicted that unless the country put an end to the injustice of the Gestapo, no amount of heroism on the battlefield would prevent the country from collapsing into ruin. His sermons against the Gestapo and the killing of the handicapped were secretly copied and distributed all over Germany, as well as being dropped in huge numbers from British airplanes. He survived the war and was made a Cardinal in early 1946, but died of a appendicitis attack shortly after returning to Germany from Rome.

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