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Prelate Helmut Moll (Cologne) has published the 8th edition of the German Martyrology of Witnesses to the Faith of the 20th Century with Schöningh-Verlag. It now includes almost 1000 people. An appealing website provides an insight into the many people and fates, including the Berlin layman Karl-Heinrich Schäfer, who was a scholarship holder of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society from 1903 to 1914 and thus the longest-serving scholarship holder of the Institute. In 1914, he went off to fight in the World War, but was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp because of his rejection of National Socialism, where he died in January 1945.

Martyrologium

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 10 December 2023

In the crypt of the German church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome lie 460 Austro-Hungarian soldiers from the First World War. It is a special kind of memorial. The remains were brought there from Campo Verano by Rector Hudal in 1937 and took on a pronouncedly Greater German significance after the Anschluss in 1938.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 10 December 2023

The lectures from the conference "Benedictines as Scholars", which took place in St Peter's in Salzburg in 2018, have now been published by EOS, edited by Andreas Sohn (Paris).

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 21 January 2024

Prof. Dr Rainald Becker (Augsburg) and Dr Christof Botzenhart (Munich) have written a high-profile part of recent history, namely the history of the prime ministers since the end of the First World War. There are 18 personalities (prime ministers without -*/innen) whose biographies and understanding of office are presented. It also shows the development of the Free State from an agrarian culture to a hypermodern state with all its advantages and risks.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 04 February 2024

The Paderborn Professor of Ancient Church History and Patrology Hubertus R. Drobner has published a truly epoch-making work on the chronology of Augustine's sermons: 1,491 pages in 2 volumes for 326 euros. Drobner, who has been translating Augustine's sermons into German for many years (see here), knows his stuff.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 26 February 2024

The X. Ebstorf Colloquium 2013 on the Lüneburg monasteries (and beyond) saw the light of day in 2022. The volume, edited by Wolfgang Brandis and Hans-Walter Stork, is highly informative and contains numerous excellent illustrations.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 05 March 2024

Jobst Knigge, who will soon be giving a Görres lecture, has published the book "Rome unterm Hakenkreuz. Life under German occupation 1943/44" on the online platform Zenodo. In it, the Campo Santo Teutonico is also mentioned in several places - in connection with Mons. Hugh O'Flaherty.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 15 March 2024

An inconspicuous Vatican publication with the curious title "Souvenirs de Babel" is worthy of attention because it reproduces several dozen historical photographs of the exterior and interior of the Vatican library and archives, albeit deliberately in such an unfavourable position that they cannot be reproduced.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 17 March 2024

The news about the visit of Augsburg Bishop Bertram Meier to the graves of the Ulma family in Markowa (Poland) is an occasion to draw attention to a book about the Ulma family. During the Second World War, the Ulma family hid Jews in their home for years, even though it was punishable by death. This could not remain hidden, and so they were denounced to the Nazis.

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 14 April 2024

In May 2024 the second issue of the RQ 119 (2023) will be published. It will contain the following articles

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Recommended reading; Created: 22 May 2024

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Recommended reading

Eightth edition of the German Martyrologium

Austro-Hungarian soldiers in the crypt of the Anima in Rome

Book about Benedictines as Scholars

The Prime Ministers of Bavaria 1918-2018

An epoch-making work: Hubertus R. Drobner on the chronology of Augustine

Monastery archives and monastery libraries in the Middle Ages

Jobst Knigge: Rome under German occupation

The old study-rooms of the Vatican Library and Archive

Bishop Bertram Meier in Poland

Announcement: issue 3-4 of the Roman Quarterly 2023