WP soldier priest from Wilhering Abbey

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Very interesting thread ! And again with a nice presentation ! Thank you.

Thanks Luft 76!!
Ciao Oriano

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the Death card of another priest, NCO in a health unit, (awarded with Ek2) who fell in Italy ... Father Josef Nieberler was seriously injured in Aprilia while carrying out his task (as a bearer?) on February 16, 1944 ( the first day of the great German attack on the Allied sack) and was then transported to the rear of Rocca di Papa (see photo today) where he dies on February 17th



from the site of the Comboni Missionaries: of Bressanone (south Tyrol) where he returns, after his Death, buried in his Church of Milland


https://www.comboni.org/fratelli/106159

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another remembrance cards of a Franciscan novice fallen in Italy ........
a student of theology of the order of the Capuchins, enlisted in December 1941; in the cards there is the synthesis of his religious and military life .... he falls to Vitiniano near Bibbiena (Tuscan Emilian Apennines ) on 8 August 1944, the area is that held by the 305 ID at that time (although the "PanzerGrenadier Regiment" it could be the 15 Pz, Gren.Div. which bordered on sector) ... refers later to a Franciscan church in which it managed to follow 6 Masses ... a coincidence or a sign of destiny: the Casentino where he fell is one of the most important Franciscan centers of the world: the great convent of La Verna (I marked it with a yellow triangle in the map), it is 10 km distant from where he fell


the Convent of La Verna in the summer of 1944 was a refuge for refugees sheltering them from the war .... becoming ... on September 2 the British shoot with the artillery for about 7 hours on the Monastery, causing even a victim , it seems to me a cleric, and they also do damage in one of the cells of the Monastery, which is freed by the British at 5.50 pm on 5 September 1944.

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His biography in the commemoration of the Stiftsgymnasium of Wilhering on the anniversary of his death (10 March 1964)

and from the site of the Wilhering Abbey another beautiful photo of our professor among the teachers of the year 1952