Blessed Otto Neururer (1882-1940)

Born to a German peasant family, he studied for the priesthood at Brixen. In 1938, when the Nazis occupied Austria, he was ministering in the Tirol. Otto, in his capacity as spiritual advisor to his parish, advised a local girl not to marry a divorced man who was leading a dissolute life. The man was a personal friend of the Gauleiter, the highest Nazi authority in Tirol, and Otto’s intervention brought down the wrath of the Nazis. Neururer was arrested for “slander to the detriment of German marriage,” and imprisoned in Dachau and Buchenwald. He suffered torture but ministered to his new flock of fellow sufferers, even sharing his scant rations with prisoners weaker than himself. In Buchenwald he was approached by a prisoner who asked to be baptized. Otto suspected a trap, but felt he could not refuse. Two days later he was transferred to the “bunker”, the place of extreme punishment, where he was hanged upside down until he died.
(From Saints.sqpn.com)