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In the later decades of the 250-year period of the Goa Inquisition, the Portuguese Catholic clergy discriminated against the Indian Catholic clergy because its members were the children of previously converted Catholic parents. The Goan Catholics were referred to as "black priests" and they were also stereotyped as being "ill-natured and ill ...
In all, an estimated one third of German priests faced some form of reprisal in Nazi Germany and 400 German priests were sent to the dedicated Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp. Of the 2,720 clergy imprisoned at Dachau from Germany and occupied territories, 2,579 (or 94.88%) were Catholic.
The Cuncolim Massacre or Cuncolim Revolt was an incident that involved the massacre and mutilation of Jesuit priests and civilians by Hindu chieftains in the Portuguese Goa village of Cuncolim on Monday, 15 July 1583. The five priests along with one Portuguese civilian and 14 Goan Catholics were killed in the incident. [1]
priest, member of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate: German resistance to Nazism: executed, Halle an der Saale (beheaded) Paul Schneider: 1897–1939: German: clergyman German resistance to Nazism: lethal injection, Buchenwald: Edith Stein: 1891–1942: German: Carmelite nun, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Catholic saint (born Jewish) Jewish: gas ...
According to Harry Schnitker, Kevin Spicer's Hitler's Priests found that about 0.5 per cent of German priests (138 of 42,000, including Austrian priests) could be considered Nazis. One of them was the academic theologian Karl Eschweiler , an opponent of the Weimar Republic, who was suspended from his priestly duties for writing Nazi pamphlets ...
Alesch became an agent of the Abwehr, German intelligence organization.He gained entry into resistance circles and won the confidence of the ethnologist Germaine Tillion, who put him in touch with Jacques Legrand, the chief executive of the Réseau Gloria [a] and with Gabrielle Picabia (whose nom de guerre was "Gloria") founder and head of the network.
In 1787, inspired by the French Revolution, several Goan Catholic priests, unhappy with the process of promotion within the Church and other discriminatory practices of the Portuguese, organized the Pinto Revolt against the Portuguese. Though it was an unsuccessful revolt, it was the first open revolt against the Portuguese from within Goa.
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