Richard Henkes
German Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed
About Richard Henkes
Lived 1900 – 1945 (aged 44). Richard Henkes was a German catholic priest, resistance fighter and catholic theologian.
Richard Henkes (26 May 1900 – 22 February 1945) was a German Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines). Henkes served as a teacher but was best known for his preaching abilities in the pulpit where he made strong-worded condemnations of Nazism and the actions the Nazis were said to have made. Henkes offered indirect assistance to the German Resistance during World War II and was one of the more vocal German priests to condemn Nazism.
Life Richard Henkes was born in mid-1900 in Ruppach-Goldhausen as one of eight children to a stonemason. The postulator for this cause is the Pallottine priest Jan Korycki.
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Who was Richard Henkes?
German Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (1900–1945)
When was Richard Henkes born?
Richard Henkes was born on 26 May 1900 in Ruppach-Goldhausen.
When did Richard Henkes die?
Richard Henkes died on 22 February 1945 in Dachau concentration camp.
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Richard Henkes was a catholic priest, resistance fighter and catholic theologian.
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Richard Henkes was German.
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