SAINT
saint-josef-mayr-nusser
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Josef Mayr-Nusser was an Italian Roman Catholic who served as the President of the Saint Vincent de Paul Conference of the Bolzano division as well as a member of Catholic Action. He is known best for refusing to recite the Hitler oath after he was drafted as a Nazi soldier and was sentenced to death at the Dachau concentration camp. He died en route to the camp in 1945. He is known as the "Martyr of the First Commandment".
feast Day
10-03
birth Date
27 December 1910
death Date
1945-02-24
canonization Status
beatified
feast Month
10
feast Day Of Month
3

