Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
The Seven Martyrs of the Löb Family
The recent celebration of the second anniversary of the death of our Seven Brothers of Atlas may be the occasion for us to remember another group of Seven Martyrs, the Löb family, who died victims of the Nazi persecution during World War II.
They were a Christian family of Jewish origin, who were arrested at the same time as Edith Stein and several other Christians of Jewish origin, in Holland after the outspoken pastoral letter of the Dutch bishops protesting the cruelties done to the Jewish people.
One extraordinary thing about that family is that three boys were monks of Koningshoeven Abbey (Tilburg) and three girls were nuns of Berkel.
The English version of the short history of those Seven Dutch Martyrs that we present here was prepared some thirty years ago by Father Ansgar Christensen (then a monk of New Melleray, now a monk of Tre Fontane), on the basis of a Dutch narrative written by a monk of Koningshoeven.
See the photographs of those seven Christian Maccabees
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