US EditionFuture Blessed Eduard Profittlich was ‘Estonian by the blood he gave’
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Archbishop Eduard Profittlich will be beatified on September 6 at Freedom Square in Tallinn. Katrin Laur, who wrote the novel "The Witness" about Profittlich, recalls how she collected material about the archbishop's life and what she learned in the process.
Future Blessed Eduard Profittlich was ‘Estonian by the blood he gave’
Ahead of the beatification of Archbishop Eduard Profittlich in Estonia, Bishop Philippe Jourdan and the diocesan postulator share the joy of the Catholic community in the Baltic nation, saying his life bears witness to God’s invitation to faith and peace. Read all
It is a historic event: Estonia, together with Eduard Profittlich, has his first Blessed of the Catholic Church. The Archbishop from the Diocese of Trier died in Soviet imprisonment in 1942. In Estonia, the former Archbishop Eduard Profittlich (1890-1942) from Germany was beatified. Several hundred people came to the ceremony for the German Jesuit and martyr from the Diocese of Trier, who had been sentenced to death under Soviet rule and died in…
The Catholic Church in Estonia is celebrating a historic day. The first-ever beatification will take place in Tallinn today. Archbishop Eduard Profittlich, S.J., a German Jesuit who, as apostolic administrator of Estonia, gave his life for fidelity to Christ and his faithful, perishing in a Soviet prison during World War II, will be declared Blessed. This is an unprecedented event for the country's small Catholic community. A Shepherd Who Remai…
On Saturday, September 6, Eduard Profittlich, a Catholic archbishop during the First Estonian Republic and a martyr, will be beatified. This is a significant event for both the Catholic Church and Estonian society. “There are people whose fate, and especially their death, is symbolic,” says Bishop Philippe Jourdan. “Father Eduard Profittlich shared the fate of the Estonian people during World War II. That is why it touches us all so deeply.”
Estonia is experiencing a historic ecclesiastical event this weekend: with the beatification of Archbishop Eduard Profittlich, a German-born Jesuit and the last Catholic bishop of Tallinn before the Soviet occupation, the country receives its first beatified person. The beatification Mass will be celebrated Saturday morning in the capital's Freedom Square. Archbishop Profittlich, who died in 1942 in a Kirov prison, is the... The article "Histori…
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