Rupert Mayer
| Blessed Rupert Mayer | |
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| The Apostle of Munich | |
| Born |
23 January 1876 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Died | 1 November 1945 (aged 69) Munich, Germany |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 3 May 1987, Munich by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 3 November |
Rupert Mayer (23 January 1876 – 1 November 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich. In 1987 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
Mayer was born and grew up in Stuttgart, one of five siblings. He finished his secondary education in 1894 and studied philosophy and theology in Freiburg, Switzerland; Munich and Tübingen. He was, among other things, a member of A.V. Guestfalia Tübingen and K.D.St.V. Aenania München, two Studentenverbindungen that belong to the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen. In 1899, he was ordained a priest and joined the Society of Jesus in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria (then Austria-Hungary) in 1900. From 1906, he moved about Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands as a People's Commissioner.
From 1914, Mayer was a volunteered chaplain in the First World War. He was initially assigned to a military hospital; however, he wished to be closer to the soldiers and was sent to the fronts in France, Poland and Romania as chaplain to a division of soldiers. He was held in great esteem by both Catholic and non-Catholic soldiers.
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