An anti-Nazi priest who was killed
at the Dachau concentration camp has been beatified at a ceremony in
Germany — the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Alojs Andritzki was arrested in 1941 and killed by lethal
injection at the concentration camp on February 1943 after falling ill
with typhus.
He was 28.
Pope Benedict XVI, a German native, sent Cardinal Angelo Amato
from the Vatican to lead Monday’s ceremony in Dresden, which attracted
up to 8,000 people.
The church already has declared Andritzki a martyr.