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Diocesan Bishop of St. Pölten in an interview with P3tv: Preparations are already underway, the priest is checking the facts.
St. Pölten (OTS) – In the big Christmas interview with Professor Hubert Wachter on the Lower Austrian private broadcaster P3tv, Bishop Alois Schwarz delivers a Christmas blast. The parish priest announced that he would initiate a beatification process for former Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl († 1965): “For me, Leopold Figl is a politician – the more I immerse myself in this figure – the more confidence I have: we must and must be here to initiate a process of beatification “.
As reasons for this step, Schwarz cites the conciliatory personality of the Christian social politician, and in the P3tv interview he also points out a martyrdom of Figl, who died in 1965 from the long-term consequences of abuse in the concentration camp: “The man it brought so much hope. … He was never resentful. And he received blows in the concentration camp that really cost him his life ”.
Figl was a politician who built bridges across ideological borders: “At the end of the war, Leopold Figl walked from Schenkenstrasse to Parliament. On the one hand someone hung himself, that was a communist. On the other hand, someone got hooked, That he was a socialist. And the three of them, with Leopold Figl in the middle, went to parliament. In 1945, Austria raised hopes again. Or when I think of his Christmas speech, unforgettable. The man brought so much hope. “
The preparation for the start of the beatification process is already underway, a cleric is collecting all the necessary information: “I have already found a priest whom I have asked to find out more. We have to bring that, and then of course it has to go on its way: to the bishops’ conference, the approval, and of course then to Rome. “
In an interview with P3tv, Bishop Schwarz does not want to compromise himself on how long the beatification process for Leopold Figl could take: “That depends on how quickly Leopold Figl gives us one or another miracle in the beatification process.” There were already people to whom Leopold Figl gave strength in difficult situations: “Recently someone said to me: ‘I told you, Leopold Figl, help me throughout the day and be my partner and defender”. He said later that he had the feeling that it had helped him. “
The full interview with Bishop Schwarz airs today, December 22 at 7:30 pm The conversation is now available online at the following link: https://www.p3tv.at/webtv/10621-wort-mit -bischof
Video material of the interview can be made available if necessary with reference to P3tv.
The photographic material of the interview is available for free with an editorial mention from the station with the credit: “P3tv / Markus Berger.”
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