Marcel Callo
Marcel Callo (born December 6, 1921 in Rennes ; † March 19, 1945 in the Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a Catholic youth worker and opponent of National Socialism , who was beatified in 1987 .
Life
Marcel Callo grew up in a religious family with many children. As a child he actively worked with the Boy Scouts and at the age of 13 he joined the Christian Worker Youth . During this time he also began an apprenticeship as a printer . In his parish St. Albin he was an altar boy and leader of the Christian youth workers, which he organized as a missionary . The celebration of Holy Mass was of particular importance to him.
During the Second World War , at the age of 22, he was deported from France to Germany for forced labor . He started work in Germany with the attitude “I will not go there as a worker - I will go there as a missionary” and did not use the opportunity to flee because he was determined to help and proselytize.
In Germany, Marcel Callo lived in the Zella-Mehlis camp and worked in an arms factory. In the labor camp, he gathered his comrades for worship and worked as a nurse and choir director. He founded a Catholic action group made up of young French workers and boy scouts and was arrested by the Gestapo on the grounds that "Through his Catholic and religious actions he has proven himself a pest for the government of the National Socialist Party and for the salvation of the German people". The Christian working-class youth was banned. Marcel Callo was imprisoned in Gotha prison for five months . Then he and his comrades were taken to the Mauthausen / Gusen concentration camp via Flossenbürg and Hof. There he was housed in the Gusen II concentration camp and was deployed in the underground B8 Bergkristall aircraft factory in St. Georgen an der Gusen . After a few months of exploitation in KL Gusen II, he was transferred to the "infirmary", the medical camp at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died on March 19, 1945.
Honors
In 1987 Callo was beatified in Rome by Pope John Paul II as a "martyr of the working class youth". In the district Auwiesen of Linz was Catholic parish Marcel Callo (Linz-Auwiesen) named after him. The community of St. Georgen an der Gusen dedicated a “Marcel Callo path” to the memory of Marcel Callo and his comrades across the tunnel of the underground aircraft factory. The city of Zella-Mehlis honored Marcel Callo by renaming the square in front of the Catholic Church "Marcel-Callo-Platz". In the Bruck district of Erlangen the Marcel-Callo-Weg is named after Marcel Callo , in Castrop-Rauxel a youth center of the German Scouting Society St. Georg and in Heilbad Heiligenstadt a catholic education house. A former youth hostel in Seesen was named Marcel-Callo-Haus. In downtown Augsburg, the KAB , the CAJ and the company chaplaincy are based in the Marcel Callo House.
Remembrance day
- Roman Catholic: April 19th
- Since 2004 a day of remembrance not offered in the regional calendar for the German-speaking area
Web links
- Literature by and about Marcel Callo in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Auwiesen parish on the official website of the Diocese of Linz
- MARCEL CALLO - Diocese of Augsburg
- Homepage about Marcel Callo
- Last traces of the blessed Marcel Callo - A portrait broadcast by Radio Maria Austria with Rudolf Haunschmied for All Saints 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Day of the Lord Number 13, March 29, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Callo, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic youth worker and opponent of National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennes |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1945 |
| Place of death | Mauthausen concentration camp |