Fr. Richard Henkes SAC Tag

Schönstattkapelle in Katscher/
POLAND, Maria Fischer • This October marks 80 years since the first daughter shrine, the first faithful replica of the original shrine, was blessed. This Sunday, July 23, 2023, however, it will already be 90 years since the blessing of a chapel that looks confusingly like the Original Shrine. It stands in Kietrz, formerly Kascher, in Upper Silesia, and goes back to Blessed Father Richard Henkes of the Pallottine community. So discovered today, July 18, in an article in the news portal www.opole.gosc.pl. — The celebration of the 90th anniversaryRead More
Dachau
GERMANY, Sister M. Elinor Grimm / Maria Fischer • “Dachau – the significance of this name cannot be erased from German history. It stands for all the concentration camps that the National Socialists built in their area of control,” said the publicist Eugen Kogon, who himself was imprisoned for several years in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dachau cannot be erased from Schoenstatt’s history either, as Fr. Joseph Kentenich and several Schoenstatt priests were imprisoned there. Visits to the Dachau Memorial are hard and necessary in order not to idyllize orRead More