IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE BLESSED CLEMENS AUGUST GRAF VON GALEN (FEAST DAY ON MARCH 22)

  

Clemens August Graf von Galen’s quote

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“I repeat, steel yourselves and hold fast! At this moment we are not the hammer, but the anvil. Others, chiefly intruders and apostates, hammer at us; they are striving violently to wrench us, our nation and our youth from our belief in God. We are the anvil, I say, and not the hammer, but what happens in the forge? Go and ask the blacksmith and see what he says. Whatever is beaten out on the anvil receives its shape from the anvil as well as the hammer. The anvil cannot and need not strike back. It need only be hard and firm. If it is tough enough it invariably outlives the hammer. No matter how vehemently the hammer falls; the anvil remains standing in quiet strength, and for a long time will play its part in helping to shape what is being moulded.”

- The Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen

The Lion of Münster, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen

 

Tomb of Clemens August Graf v. Galen at Muenster Cathedral