A Snapshot of Blesseds Jesús Hita, Carlos Eraña, Fidel Fuidio, Jakob Gapp

(From Things Marianist by Daniel Jordan and Adolf Windisch, SM, July 2000)

In addition to Father Chaminade, the Marianist Family has . . . other servants whom the Church

Church does not cease producing in our kind of law of compensation: the more sin and Maria Salverri, SM, Circular 21, March 19, 1990, p. 9) In fact, Pius XI referred to the martyrdom, it is not so much the way our Marianist martyrs died that we remember; it is the way these men lived.

Brother Jesús Hita, SM, (1900-1936)

Brother Carlos Eraña, SM, (1884-1936) useful. Being holy, being useful, and being self-giving, these three insights I hold so deeply in my soul that they come easily and quickly to my thoughts

According to a superior, the pupils held Brother Fidel Fuidio, SM, (1880- 1936) saw malice in them, he supported their defects with complete affection and

These three Christian educators were executed in 1936 during the height of the Spanish Civil War because they were vowed religious who remained faithful to the Gospel. On October 1,

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Father Jakob Gapp, SM, (1897 1943) was an Austrian who loved to teach children, religion, to preach the Good News, to stand up for justice,

Church to teach the tru government. On November 24, 1996, Pope John Paul II declared Father

(From Via Latina 22, no. 65, March 1, 1998) Special Postmark Honors Blessed Jakob Gapp

[August 1997] the anniversary of the execution of Blessed Jakob by the Nazis, the Postal Administration of authorized a special commemorative postmark for use in each location where Blessed Jakob had lived and worked. November 24 marked the first anniversary of his by Pope John Paul II.

Pencil Drawing of Spanish Martyrs by Don Smith, SM

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