Joseph Kentenich - Koblenz, Germany
N 50° 21.589 E 007° 36.165
32U E 400614 N 5579571
Gedenktafel für Joseph Kentenich / Commemorative plaque for Joseph Kentenich
Waymark Code: WMY93B
Location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Date Posted: 05/13/2018
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Seit 1985 erinnert eine Gedenktafel aus den Schönstatt-Werkstätten an der Ecke Karmeliterstraße/Rheinstraße an die Internierung des Paters Josef Kentenich im Karmelitergefängnis .
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Since 1985, a plaque from the Schoenstatt workshops on the corner of Karmeliterstrasse and Rheinstrasse commemorates the internment of Father Joseph Kentenich in the Carmelite prison.
About Joseph Kentenich
Wikipedia contributors. (2018, May 10). Joseph Kentenich. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:00, May 13, 2018, from (
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"Father Joseph Kentenich (b. 16 November,[1] 1885 – 15 September 1968) was a Pallottine priest and founder of the Schoenstatt Movement. He is also remembered as a theologian, educator and pioneer of a Catholic response to an array of modern issues, whose teachings underwent a series of challenges from political and ecclesiastical powers. He attempted to teach Christians how to live out their faith.
Considered by many of those who came into contact with him to have been a saint, his cause for sainthood is currently at the diocesan level in the Diocese of Trier, pending the compilation of his writings and correspondences...................
Arrested by Gestapo
Once in power, the Nazis are quick to classify Schoenstatt among the main opponents to destroy. After endless vexations, on 20 September 1941, Father Kentenich is summoned by Gestapo; we quote one of his words, pronounced in private, but reported by an informer: "My mission is to reveal the inner emptiness of National Socialism, and by there to defeat it." The police imprisons the religious a month in a cell without ventilation, in order to break his resistance. It is a small massive concrete cell without any opening than the door. The "Secret State Police" brakes the toughest there. Father Kentenich is kept for four weeks in this dark and airless bunker, which was before the vault of a branch of the Reichsbank. He leaves physically debilitated, but calm and peaceful as at the entry. He is then transferred to a prison in Koblenz, a former Carmelite convent. He spent there 5 months. Then it is hell of Dachau."