Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany

head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963

attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, 1944

German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism (1878–1946)

German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)

Swiss assassin (1916-1941)

German cardinal (1859-1945)

Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1865-1944)

Greek Catholic Basilian monk (1888-1960)

German priest (1887–1944)

Irish priest (1898-1963)

Italian resistance fighter (1907-1944)

Polish nun (1899-1939)

Catholic cardinal (1870-1956)

Ukrainian Catholic monk and political prisoner (1869–1951)

Polish pharmacist (1908–1993)

Polish martyr (1888–1943)

20th-century Italian Catholic

Italian priest and diplomat

Italian Dominican priest (1905-1945)

critical node in Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty's "Rome Escape Line" network operating in the Vatican during World War Two

Ukrainian beatified priest and Righteous Among the Nations (1884-1944)

Polish Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (1893–1943)

First Minister Generalis of the Mariavites (1871-1942)

French priest and theologian (1887–1952)

Bishop of Assisi from 1928-1973

Italian teacher, blessed (1916-1945)

Slovak roman catholic bishop

Beatified by Catholic church (1906-1945)

Catholic priest (1882–1940)

Italian Roman Catholic nun (1891-1951)

Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop and theologian (1923–2005)

German friar (1867-1946)

German Catholic priest (1894–1944)

Italian archbishop and diplomat

Italian writer (1902-2007)

Croatian priest, church historian and politician (1873–1961)

French theologian and resistant (1900-1972)

Polish Roman Catholic saint (1908–1942)

Italian priest

Italian Jesuit missionary (1909-1995)