{"history":[],"article":{"id":"cdbdcc80-1212-4d6b-b5f3-922489a94abc","title":"Alfred Delp","slug":"alfred-delp","content":":::summary\n![Alfred Delp](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Alfred///Delp///Mannheim.jpg)\n**Honorific Prefix:** The Reverend \n**Name:** Alfred Delp \n**Honorific Suffix:** SJ \n**Birth Name:** Alfred Friedrich Delp \n**Birth Date:** September 15, 1907 \n**Birth Place:** [Mannheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/mannheim), [Grand Duchy of Baden](https://bliptext.com/articles/grand-duchy-of-baden), [German Empire](https://bliptext.com/articles/german-empire) \n**Death Date:** February 2, 1945 \n**Death Place:** [Plötzensee Prison](https://bliptext.com/articles/pl-tzensee-prison), Berlin, [Nazi Germany](https://bliptext.com/articles/nazi-germany) \n**Occupation:** Catholic priest \n**Movement:** [Kreisau Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/kreisau-circle) \n:::\n\n# \n**Alfred Friedrich Delp** (15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German [Jesuit](https://bliptext.com/articles/jesuit) priest and philosopher of the [German Resistance](https://bliptext.com/articles/german-resistance-to-nazism).\nA member of the inner [Kreisau Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/kreisau-circle) resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in [Catholic resistance to Nazism](https://bliptext.com/articles/catholic-resistance-to-nazism).\nFalsely implicated in the failed 1944 [July Plot](https://bliptext.com/articles/july-plot) to overthrow [Adolf Hitler](https://bliptext.com/articles/adolf-hitler), Delp was arrested and sentenced to death.\nHe was executed in 1945.\n\n# Early life and education\nAlfred Delp was born in [Mannheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/mannheim), [Grand Duchy of Baden](https://bliptext.com/articles/grand-duchy-of-baden), to a [Catholic](https://bliptext.com/articles/catholic) mother Maria, née Bernauer and a [Protestant](https://bliptext.com/articles/protestant) father Johann Adam Friedrich Delp.\nAlthough he was baptised as a Catholic, he attended a Protestant elementary school and was confirmed in the [Lutheran church](https://bliptext.com/articles/lutheran-church) in 1921.\nThis was due to the influence of his paternal grandmother.\nFollowing a bitter argument with the Lutheran pastor, he requested and received the sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation in the Catholic Church.\nHis Catholic pastor recognized the boy's intelligence and love for learning and arranged for him to study at the Goetheschule in [Dieburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/dieburg).\nPossibly because of the dual upbringing, he became later an ardent proponent of radically better relations between the Churches.\nThereafter, Delp's youth was moulded mainly by the [Bund Neudeutschland](https://bliptext.com/articles/bund-neudeutschland) [Catholic](https://bliptext.com/articles/roman-catholic-church) youth movement.\nImmediately after passing his [Abitur](https://bliptext.com/articles/abitur) – in which he was top of his class – he joined the [Society of Jesus](https://bliptext.com/articles/society-of-jesus) in 1926.\nFollowing philosophy studies at [Pullach](https://bliptext.com/articles/pullach), he worked for 3 years as a prefect and sports teacher at [Stella Matutina Kolleg](https://bliptext.com/articles/stella-matutina-jesuit-school) in [Feldkirch](https://bliptext.com/articles/feldkirch-vorarlberg), [Austria](https://bliptext.com/articles/austria), where in 1933, he first experienced the [Nazi](https://bliptext.com/articles/nazi) regime, which forced an exodus of virtually all German students from [Austria](https://bliptext.com/articles/austria) and thus the [Stella Matutina](https://bliptext.com/articles/stella-matutina-jesuit-school) by means of a punitive 1000 Mark fine to be paid by anyone entering [Austria](https://bliptext.com/articles/austria).\nWith his Director, Fr [Otto Faller](https://bliptext.com/articles/otto-faller) and Professor [Alois Grimm](https://bliptext.com/articles/alois-grimm), he was among the first to arrive in the [Black Forest](https://bliptext.com/articles/black-forest), where the Jesuits opened [Kolleg St. Blasien](https://bliptext.com/articles/kolleg-st-blasien) for some 300 students forced out of Austria.\nAfter St. Blasien, he completed his theology studies in [Valkenburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/valkenburg-aan-de-geul), [The Netherlands](https://bliptext.com/articles/netherlands) (1934–1936), and in [Frankfurt](https://bliptext.com/articles/frankfurt) (1936–1937).\n\n# Ministry\nIn 1935, Delp published his Tragic Existence, propagating a God-based humanism and reviewing the existentialism of [Martin Heidegger](https://bliptext.com/articles/martin-heidegger).\nIn 1937, Delp was ordained a Catholic priest in [Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/munich).\nDelp had wanted to study for a doctorate in philosophy at the [University of Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/university-of-munich), but he was refused admission to the university for political reasons.\nFrom 1939 on, he worked on the editorial staff of the Jesuit journal [Stimmen der Zeit](https://bliptext.com/articles/stimmen-der-zeit) (\"Voices of the Times\"), until the Nazis suppressed it in April 1941.\nHe was then assigned as rector of St. Georg Church, part of Heilig-Blut Parish in the [Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/munich) neighbourhood Bogenhausen.\nHe preached both at Heilig-Blut and St. Georg, and also secretly helped Jews who were escaping to Switzerland through the [underground](https://bliptext.com/articles/resistance-during-world-war-ii).\n\n# Resistance\nOutspoken opposition to the [Nazis](https://bliptext.com/articles/nazis) by individual Jesuits resulted in harsh response from government officials, including imprisonment of priests in concentration camps.\nThe government takeover of church property, \"Klostersturm\", resulted in the loss of valuable properties such as that of Stimmen der Zeit, and limited the work of the Jesuits in Germany.\nThe Jesuit provincial, [Augustin Rösch](https://bliptext.com/articles/augustin-r-sch), Delp's superior in Munich, became active in the underground resistance to Hitler.\nRösch introduced Delp to the [Kreisau Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/kreisau-circle).\nAs of 1942, Delp met regularly with the clandestine group around [Helmuth James Graf von Moltke](https://bliptext.com/articles/helmuth-james-graf-von-moltke) to develop a model for a new social order after the Third Reich came to an end.\nDelp's role was to explain [Catholic social teaching](https://bliptext.com/articles/catholic-social-teaching) to the group, and to arrange contacts between Moltke and Catholic leaders, including Archbishop [Konrad von Preysing](https://bliptext.com/articles/konrad-von-preysing) of Berlin and Bishop [Johannes Dietz](https://bliptext.com/articles/johannes-dietz) of Fulda.\n\n# Arrest and trial\nAfter the [20 July plot](https://bliptext.com/articles/20-july-plot) to assassinate Hitler failed, a special [Gestapo](https://bliptext.com/articles/gestapo) commission arrested and interrogated all known members of the Resistance.\nDelp was arrested in [Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/munich) on 28 July 1944 (eight days after [Claus von Stauffenberg](https://bliptext.com/articles/claus-von-stauffenberg)'s attempt on [Hitler](https://bliptext.com/articles/hitler)'s life), although he was not directly involved in the plot.\nHe was transferred to [Tegel Prison](https://bliptext.com/articles/tegel-prison) in Berlin.\nWhile in prison, he secretly began to say Mass and wrote letters, reflections on Advent, on Christmas, and other spiritual subjects, which were smuggled out of the prison before his trial.\nOn 8 December 1944, Delp had a visit from Franz von Tattenbach SJ, sent by Rösch to receive his final vows to the Jesuit Order.\nThis was supposedly forbidden, but the attending policemen did not understand what was going on.\nDelp wrote on the same day, “It was too much, what a fulfillment, I prayed for it so much, I gave my life away.\nMy chains are now without any meaning, because God found me worthy of the 'Vincula amoris' (chains of love)”.\nHe was tried, together with [Helmuth James Graf von Moltke](https://bliptext.com/articles/helmuth-james-graf-von-moltke), Franz Sperr, and [Eugen Gerstenmaier](https://bliptext.com/articles/eugen-gerstenmaier), before the People's Court ([Volksgerichtshof](https://bliptext.com/articles/volksgerichtshof)) on 9–11 January 1945, with [Roland Freisler](https://bliptext.com/articles/roland-freisler) presiding.\nDelp, von Moltke, and Sperr were sentenced to death by hanging for [high treason](https://bliptext.com/articles/high-[treason](https://bliptext.com/articles/treason)) and [treason](https://bliptext.com/articles/treason).\nThe court had dropped the charge against Delp of being aware of the 20 July plot, but his dedication to the Kreisau Circle, his work as a Jesuit priest, and his Christian-social worldview were enough to seal his fate.\n\n# Execution\nWhile he was in prison, the [Gestapo](https://bliptext.com/articles/gestapo) offered Delp his freedom in return for leaving the Jesuits, but he rejected it.\nDelp, like all prisoners connected with 20 July, was required to wear handcuffs day and night.\nPrisoners being taken to execution were handcuffed with their hands behind their backs.\nThe sentence was carried out on 2 February 1945 at [Plötzensee Prison](https://bliptext.com/articles/pl-tzensee-prison) in Berlin.\nThe next day, Roland Freisler was killed in an air-raid.\nA special order by [Heinrich Himmler](https://bliptext.com/articles/heinrich-himmler) required that the remains of all prisoners executed in connection with 20 July Plot be cremated, and their ashes scattered over the sewage fields.\nAccordingly, the body of Alfred Delp was cremated and his ashes disposed of in an unknown location near Berlin.\n\n# Posthumous honours\nIn September 1949, the superior Fr [Otto Faller](https://bliptext.com/articles/otto-faller) at [Kolleg St. Blasien](https://bliptext.com/articles/kolleg-st-blasien) unveiled memorial plaques for Delp and [Alois Grimm](https://bliptext.com/articles/alois-grimm), both former educators and teachers slain by the Nazis.\nThirty years later, Kolleg St. Blasien named its new theatre hall after Delp.\nThe Alfred Delp Memorial Chapel in [Lampertheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/lampertheim) was consecrated on 2 February 1965, on the 20th anniversary of his death.\nMany schools in Germany are named after Alfred Delp, among them one in [Bremerhaven](https://bliptext.com/articles/bremerhaven).\nIn [Mannheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/mannheim), a Catholic student residence is named for him.\nThe guesthouse on the campus of Canisius College in Berlin also bears his name.\nIn [Dieburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/dieburg), the uppermost level at the [Gymnasium](https://bliptext.com/articles/gymnasium-school), the Alfred Delp School, the Catholic community centre, the Father Delp House, and a street are named after him.\nThe [Bundeswehr](https://bliptext.com/articles/bundeswehr) named its barracks in [Donauwörth](https://bliptext.com/articles/donauw-rth) the Alfred-Delp-Kaserne.\nIn 1955, the Wasserburgerstrasse, a street in [Munich-Bogenhausen](https://bliptext.com/articles/bogenhausen) where [Eva Braun](https://bliptext.com/articles/eva-braun) resided beginning in 1935, has been renamed Delpstrasse.\nDelp's name was included among the almost other 900 Catholics in a list of people having suffered a violent death for adherence to the Christian faith, published in 1999 as ''Zeugen für Christus.\nDas deutsche Martyrologium des 20.\nJahrhunderts (Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th century''), prepared by Mgr [Helmut Moll](https://bliptext.com/articles/helmut-moll) under the auspices of the German Bishops' Conference.\n\n# Beatification process\nDelp's final parish in Munich sent documentation supporting the start of his official beatification process to the Archbishop of Berlin, Cardinal [Georg Sterzinsky](https://bliptext.com/articles/georg-sterzinsky), in January 1990.\n\n# Writings\nDelp's book In the Face of Death, published in 1956, gathered together his meditations, notes, fragments of his diary and letters, written during his six months imprisonment, and has been compared to [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://bliptext.com/articles/dietrich-bonhoeffer)'s Letters and Papers from Prison.\nIt is the first part of a trilogy that includes Committed to the Earth and The Mighty God.\nThe American edition of his Prison Meditations (1963) had an introduction by [Thomas Merton](https://bliptext.com/articles/thomas-merton), who considered him a mystic and among the most insightful writers of his time.\nThe German edition of his Collected Works (1982–1988) was edited by Fr. Roman Bleistein SJ in five volumes.\nDelp is best known for his writings that were smuggled out of prison.\nBecause he was imprisoned during the Christmas season, many of these are on the theme of Advent and the coming of Jesus.\nIn one of his last letters, Delp wrote, \"...all of life is Advent\".\nMany Christians continue to read and be inspired by Delp's life and witness.\n\n# Quotes\n\n# Works\n

Geistliche Schriften (1982)
Philosophische Schriften (1983)
Predigten und Ansprachen. (1983)
Aus dem Gefängnis. (1984)
Briefe – Texte – Rezensionen (1988)

\n\n# Sources\n\n## Sources in English\n\n## Sources in German","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-25T18:18:56.271Z","updated_at":"2025-01-25T18:18:56.271Z","search_vector":"'alfr':1 'delp':2","search_content":" \n \n**Honorific Prefix:** The Reverend \n**Name:** Alfred Delp \n**Honorific Suffix:** SJ \n**Birth Name:** Alfred Friedrich Delp \n**Birth Date:** September 15, 1907 \n**Birth Place:** [Mannheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/mannheim), [Grand Duchy of Baden](https://bliptext.com/articles/grand-duchy-of-baden), [German Empire](https://bliptext.com/articles/german-empire) \n**Death Date:** February 2, 1945 \n**Death Place:** [Plötzensee Prison](https://bliptext.com/articles/pl-tzensee-prison), Berlin, [Nazi Germany](https://bliptext.com/articles/nazi-germany) \n**Occupation:** Catholic priest \n**Movement:** [Kreisau Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/kreisau-circle) \n \n\n# \n**Alfred Friedrich Delp** (15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German [Jesuit](https://bliptext.com/articles/jesuit) priest and philosopher of the [German Resistance](https://bliptext.com/articles/german-resistance-to-nazism).\nA member of the inner [Kreisau Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/kreisau-circle) resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in [Catholic resistance to Nazism](https://bliptext.com/articles/catholic-resistance-to-nazism).\nFalsely implicated in the failed 1944 [July Plot](https://bliptext.com/articles/july-plot) to overthrow [Adolf Hitler](https://bliptext.com/articles/adolf-hitler), Delp was arrested and sentenced to death.\nHe was executed in 1945.\n\n# Early life and education\nAlfred Delp was born in [Mannheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/mannheim), [Grand Duchy of Baden](https://bliptext.com/articles/grand-duchy-of-baden), to a [Catholic](https://bliptext.com/articles/catholic) mother Maria, née Bernauer and a [Protestant](https://bliptext.com/articles/protestant) father Johann Adam Friedrich Delp.\nAlthough he was baptised as a Catholic, he attended a Protestant elementary school and was confirmed in the [Lutheran church](https://bliptext.com/articles/lutheran-church) in 1921.\nThis was due to the influence of his paternal grandmother.\nFollowing a bitter argument with the Lutheran pastor, he requested and received the sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation in the Catholic Church.\nHis Catholic pastor recognized the boy's intelligence and love for learning and arranged for him to study at the Goetheschule in [Dieburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/dieburg).\nPossibly because of the dual upbringing, he became later an ardent proponent of radically better relations between the Churches.\nThereafter, Delp's youth was moulded mainly by the [Bund Neudeutschland](https://bliptext.com/articles/bund-neudeutschland) [Catholic](https://bliptext.com/articles/roman-catholic-church) youth movement.\nImmediately after passing his [Abitur](https://bliptext.com/articles/abitur) – in which he was top of his class – he joined the [Society of Jesus](https://bliptext.com/articles/society-of-jesus) in 1926.\nFollowing philosophy studies at [Pullach](https://bliptext.com/articles/pullach), he worked for 3 years as a prefect and sports teacher at [[Stella Matutina](https://bliptext.com/articles/stella-matutina-jesuit-school) Kolleg](https://bliptext.com/articles/stella-matutina-jesuit-school) in [Feldkirch](https://bliptext.com/articles/feldkirch-vorarlberg), [Austria](https://bliptext.com/articles/austria), where in 1933, he first experienced the [Nazi](https://bliptext.com/articles/nazi) regime, which forced an exodus of virtually all German students from [Austria](https://bliptext.com/articles/austria) and thus the [Stella Matutina](https://bliptext.com/articles/stella-matutina-jesuit-school) by means of a punitive 1000 Mark fine to be paid by anyone entering [Austria](https://bliptext.com/articles/austria).\nWith his Director, Fr [Otto Faller](https://bliptext.com/articles/otto-faller) and Professor [Alois Grimm](https://bliptext.com/articles/alois-grimm), he was among the first to arrive in the [Black Forest](https://bliptext.com/articles/black-forest), where the Jesuits opened [Kolleg St. Blasien](https://bliptext.com/articles/kolleg-st-blasien) for some 300 students forced out of Austria.\nAfter St. Blasien, he completed his theology studies in [Valkenburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/valkenburg-aan-de-geul), [The Netherlands](https://bliptext.com/articles/netherlands) (1934–1936), and in [Frankfurt](https://bliptext.com/articles/frankfurt) (1936–1937).\n\n# Ministry\nIn 1935, Delp published his Tragic Existence, propagating a God-based humanism and reviewing the existentialism of [Martin Heidegger](https://bliptext.com/articles/martin-heidegger).\nIn 1937, Delp was ordained a Catholic priest in [Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/munich).\nDelp had wanted to study for a doctorate in philosophy at the [University of Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/university-of-munich), but he was refused admission to the university for political reasons.\nFrom 1939 on, he worked on the editorial staff of the Jesuit journal [Stimmen der Zeit](https://bliptext.com/articles/stimmen-der-zeit) (\"Voices of the Times\"), until the Nazis suppressed it in April 1941.\nHe was then assigned as rector of St. Georg Church, part of Heilig-Blut Parish in the [Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/munich) neighbourhood Bogenhausen.\nHe preached both at Heilig-Blut and St. Georg, and also secretly helped Jews who were escaping to Switzerland through the [underground](https://bliptext.com/articles/resistance-during-world-war-ii).\n\n# Resistance\nOutspoken opposition to the [Nazis](https://bliptext.com/articles/nazis) by individual Jesuits resulted in harsh response from government officials, including imprisonment of priests in concentration camps.\nThe government takeover of church property, \"Klostersturm\", resulted in the loss of valuable properties such as that of Stimmen der Zeit, and limited the work of the Jesuits in Germany.\nThe Jesuit provincial, [Augustin Rösch](https://bliptext.com/articles/augustin-r-sch), Delp's superior in Munich, became active in the underground resistance to Hitler.\nRösch introduced Delp to the [Kreisau Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/kreisau-circle).\nAs of 1942, Delp met regularly with the clandestine group around [Helmuth James Graf von Moltke](https://bliptext.com/articles/helmuth-james-graf-von-moltke) to develop a model for a new social order after the Third Reich came to an end.\nDelp's role was to explain [Catholic social teaching](https://bliptext.com/articles/catholic-social-teaching) to the group, and to arrange contacts between Moltke and Catholic leaders, including Archbishop [Konrad von Preysing](https://bliptext.com/articles/konrad-von-preysing) of Berlin and Bishop [Johannes Dietz](https://bliptext.com/articles/johannes-dietz) of Fulda.\n\n# Arrest and trial\nAfter the [20 July plot](https://bliptext.com/articles/20-july-plot) to assassinate Hitler failed, a special [Gestapo](https://bliptext.com/articles/gestapo) commission arrested and interrogated all known members of the Resistance.\nDelp was arrested in [Munich](https://bliptext.com/articles/munich) on 28 July 1944 (eight days after [Claus von Stauffenberg](https://bliptext.com/articles/claus-von-stauffenberg)'s attempt on [Hitler](https://bliptext.com/articles/hitler)'s life), although he was not directly involved in the plot.\nHe was transferred to [Tegel Prison](https://bliptext.com/articles/tegel-prison) in Berlin.\nWhile in prison, he secretly began to say Mass and wrote letters, reflections on Advent, on Christmas, and other spiritual subjects, which were smuggled out of the prison before his trial.\nOn 8 December 1944, Delp had a visit from Franz von Tattenbach SJ, sent by Rösch to receive his final vows to the Jesuit Order.\nThis was supposedly forbidden, but the attending policemen did not understand what was going on.\nDelp wrote on the same day, “It was too much, what a fulfillment, I prayed for it so much, I gave my life away.\nMy chains are now without any meaning, because God found me worthy of the 'Vincula amoris' (chains of love)”.\nHe was tried, together with [Helmuth James Graf von Moltke](https://bliptext.com/articles/helmuth-james-graf-von-moltke), Franz Sperr, and [Eugen Gerstenmaier](https://bliptext.com/articles/eugen-gerstenmaier), before the People's Court ([Volksgerichtshof](https://bliptext.com/articles/volksgerichtshof)) on 9–11 January 1945, with [Roland Freisler](https://bliptext.com/articles/roland-freisler) presiding.\nDelp, von Moltke, and Sperr were sentenced to death by hanging for [high [treason](https://bliptext.com/articles/treason)](https://bliptext.com/articles/high-[treason](https://bliptext.com/articles/treason)) and [treason](https://bliptext.com/articles/treason).\nThe court had dropped the charge against Delp of being aware of the 20 July plot, but his dedication to the Kreisau Circle, his work as a Jesuit priest, and his Christian-social worldview were enough to seal his fate.\n\n# Execution\nWhile he was in prison, the [Gestapo](https://bliptext.com/articles/gestapo) offered Delp his freedom in return for leaving the Jesuits, but he rejected it.\nDelp, like all prisoners connected with 20 July, was required to wear handcuffs day and night.\nPrisoners being taken to execution were handcuffed with their hands behind their backs.\nThe sentence was carried out on 2 February 1945 at [Plötzensee Prison](https://bliptext.com/articles/pl-tzensee-prison) in Berlin.\nThe next day, Roland Freisler was killed in an air-raid.\nA special order by [Heinrich Himmler](https://bliptext.com/articles/heinrich-himmler) required that the remains of all prisoners executed in connection with 20 July Plot be cremated, and their ashes scattered over the sewage fields.\nAccordingly, the body of Alfred Delp was cremated and his ashes disposed of in an unknown location near Berlin.\n\n# Posthumous honours\nIn September 1949, the superior Fr [Otto Faller](https://bliptext.com/articles/otto-faller) at [Kolleg St. Blasien](https://bliptext.com/articles/kolleg-st-blasien) unveiled memorial plaques for Delp and [Alois Grimm](https://bliptext.com/articles/alois-grimm), both former educators and teachers slain by the Nazis.\nThirty years later, Kolleg St. Blasien named its new theatre hall after Delp.\nThe Alfred Delp Memorial Chapel in [Lampertheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/lampertheim) was consecrated on 2 February 1965, on the 20th anniversary of his death.\nMany schools in Germany are named after Alfred Delp, among them one in [Bremerhaven](https://bliptext.com/articles/bremerhaven).\nIn [Mannheim](https://bliptext.com/articles/mannheim), a Catholic student residence is named for him.\nThe guesthouse on the campus of Canisius College in Berlin also bears his name.\nIn [Dieburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/dieburg), the uppermost level at the [Gymnasium](https://bliptext.com/articles/gymnasium-school), the Alfred Delp School, the Catholic community centre, the Father Delp House, and a street are named after him.\nThe [Bundeswehr](https://bliptext.com/articles/bundeswehr) named its barracks in [Donauwörth](https://bliptext.com/articles/donauw-rth) the Alfred-Delp-Kaserne.\nIn 1955, the Wasserburgerstrasse, a street in [Munich-Bogenhausen](https://bliptext.com/articles/bogenhausen) where [Eva Braun](https://bliptext.com/articles/eva-braun) resided beginning in 1935, has been renamed Delpstrasse.\nDelp's name was included among the almost other 900 Catholics in a list of people having suffered a violent death for adherence to the Christian faith, published in 1999 as ''Zeugen für Christus.\nDas deutsche Martyrologium des 20.\nJahrhunderts (Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th century''), prepared by Mgr [Helmut Moll](https://bliptext.com/articles/helmut-moll) under the auspices of the German Bishops' Conference.\n\n# Beatification process\nDelp's final parish in Munich sent documentation supporting the start of his official beatification process to the Archbishop of Berlin, Cardinal [Georg Sterzinsky](https://bliptext.com/articles/georg-sterzinsky), in January 1990.\n\n# Writings\nDelp's book In the Face of Death, published in 1956, gathered together his meditations, notes, fragments of his diary and letters, written during his six months imprisonment, and has been compared to [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://bliptext.com/articles/dietrich-bonhoeffer)'s Letters and Papers from Prison.\nIt is the first part of a trilogy that includes Committed to the Earth and The Mighty God.\nThe American edition of his Prison Meditations (1963) had an introduction by [Thomas Merton](https://bliptext.com/articles/thomas-merton), who considered him a mystic and among the most insightful writers of his time.\nThe German edition of his Collected Works (1982–1988) was edited by Fr. Roman Bleistein SJ in five volumes.\nDelp is best known for his writings that were smuggled out of prison.\nBecause he was imprisoned during the Christmas season, many of these are on the theme of Advent and the coming of Jesus.\nIn one of his last letters, Delp wrote, \"...all of life is Advent\".\nMany Christians continue to read and be inspired by Delp's life and witness.\n\n# Quotes\n\n# Works\n \n Geistliche Schriften (1982) \n Philosophische Schriften (1983) \n Predigten und Ansprachen. (1983) \n Aus dem Gefängnis. (1984) \n Briefe – Texte – Rezensionen (1988) \n \n\n# Sources\n\n## Sources in English\n\n## Sources in German","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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