Beatified Carl Lampert.

13 November
Commemoration
Position: martyr
Death: 1944
Biography:

He was born on 9th November. January 1894 in Göfis, near Feldkirch in Vorarlberg, Austria, the seventh child of peasants František Xavier and Maria Lampert Rosin. During his time at Feldkirch High School, his father passed away. Thanks to the support of his uncle, he continued his studies at the seminary in Brixen from 1914. Bishop Fr. Egger ordained him on 12th May 1918. He received priestly ordination on 5 May 1918. He subsequently performed pastoral ministry in Dornbirn for twelve years. Bishop Sigismund Waitz then sent him to Rome to study canon law. After completing his studies in 1935, he was admitted to the Rota Romana (a tribunal of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature). With his law degree, he was also appointed Monsignor. In the autumn of that year, he was called back to Austria. At Bishop Waitz’s request, Dr. Carl Lampert was appointed head of the ecclesiastical court in the Apostolic Administration of Feldkirch. The following year, he also began working as a chaplain at the seminary in Innsbruck, as well as assuming the role of head of the Catholic publishing house Tyrol.
Bishop Pavel Rusch ordained him in Innsbruck on the 15^(th). On 1 January 1939, he was appointed Vicar General (Pro-Vicar and Apostolic Administrator of the territory of Innsbruck-Feldkirch).

In this role, he frequently came into conflict with the Nazi regime, as represented by Gauleiter Franz Hofer, the head of the Gestapo in Innsbruck. During Easter week in 1940, Dr Lampert was instructed by the Vatican to broadcast news of the tense situation in Tyrol via Vatican Radio. He was subsequently arrested and spent two weeks in custody. In May, he had another conflict due to the torture of the priest O. Neururer, whose trial he had tried to stop the previous year. (He was martyred on 30 May 1996.) Dr Lampert published an obituary in the church newspaper indicating where Neururer had died. The Nazis arrested him again on 5 May for violating confidentiality rules. 7. 1940. He was deported to Dachau on the 25th. 8th 1940 and from there 1. September, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. There, he was assigned to the disciplinary unit and subjected to forced labour. After three months, on the 15th of the month, On 12 September, he was transferred back to Dachau, where he remained in prison for eight months. On August 1, 1941, Dr. Carl Lampert was released and sent into exile in Pomerania. He moved on the 16th. On 8 August 1941, he moved to Szczecin, where he worked as a parish priest in Carolusstift. Little did he know that the deeply religious engineer Hagen, who was actually a Waffen-SS spy named Pissaritsch, had been assigned to him. Unable to obtain evidence that Fr Carl Lampert had spoken out against the regime, the authorities invented a story about an upcoming conspiracy to justify a larger wave of arrests. It started on 4th February 1943. Dr Carl Lampert was accused of high treason, espionage, undermining military morale, and aiding the enemy. He was subjected to intense interrogation and torture in the following months. He was convicted at his trial on the 20th of the month. 12. 1943, but was repeated on 8th December for specific reasons. 9. 1944, after which he was executed by guillotine in Halle (Saale) on 11th September. November 1944, when Carl Lampert was executed by guillotine in Halle (Saale).

He was beatified on 13. In November 2011, when Pope Benedict XVI recalled the words of Karl Lampert during one of his interrogations: ‘I love my church. I remained faithful to my church and my priesthood. I am on the side of Christ, and I love my Church.’