FATHER MAYR
AGAIN ARRESTED
(Received January 17, 1.45 pjn.)
MUNICH, January 16.
The Rev. Father Rupert Mayr, the Roman Catholic priest who was arrested in June on "technical charges" and whose sentence of six months' imprisonment was suspended, has again been arrested.
The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reported on • June 14 that the "arrest of Father Mayr had dismayed the army, as Father Mayr is regarded' as one of Bavaria's national heroes. He lost both legs in the war and was awarded the highest -military honours for his services as a chaplain. Father Mayr answered the attack of the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, on the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Mundelein, by declaring: "It is better that a priest be shot down in Spain than see his faith dragged in the dirt in Germany." The Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michel von Frulhaber, protested .to the Government that the arrest of Father Mayr was a breach of the Concordat with the Vatican. Despite the restraint imposed on. Catholics, the agitation for the-priest's release increased daily. Catholics feared that unless the authorities acted there might be an outbreak c& violence. . ~; . ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 10
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