Blessed Franz
Jagerstätter pictured
with his wife Franziska.
Jagerstätter’s life is
beautifully captured in a little known German TV movie, The Refusal Faith in Film When A Hidden Life came out in 2019 from maverick American filmmaker Terrence Malick, it was greeted with almost unquestioning adulation. The film promised to tell the story of Blessed Franz Jagerstätter, an Austrian who was executed by the Nazis for refusing conscription. The Austrian farmer is a martyr of the Church,…
