Val-de-Grâce in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Franz Stock
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 8, 2025
1. Franz Stock Marker
l'Abbé Franz Stock
Aumonier des prisons 1941-1944
Sante, Cherche-Midi, Fresnes
Neheim 1904-Paris 1948
Here lived Father Franz Stock (Neheim 1904-Paris 1948) - Prison Chaplain (Sante, Cherche-Midi, Fresnes), 1941-1944
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Religion & Religious Structures • War, World II. A significant historical date for this entry is February 24, 1948.
Location. 48° 50.606′ N, 2° 20.797′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Val-de-Grâce. It is at the intersection of Rue Lhomond and Rue Amyot, on the left when traveling south on Rue Lhomond. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 23 Rue Lhomond, Paris, Île-de-France 75005, France. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, Europe, the European Union, Atlantic Europe, the Schengen Area, Western Europe, a coastal Mediterranean country, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony and also the Roman Empire.
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Also see . . . Franz Stock (Wikipedia). Excerpt:
Franz Stock (21 September 1904, Neheim – 24 February 1948, Paris) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He is known for ministering to prisoners in France during World War II, and to German prisoners of war in the years following. The cause for his beatification has been accepted by the Holy See.(Submitted on May 3, 2025.)
…On 13 August 1940, he was named as priest for Germans residing in Paris during Nazi Germany's occupation of France, and returned in October 1940to Paris. In 1941, he started to work as a chaplain in the Fresnes Prison, La Santé Prison and Cherche-Midi Prison in Paris. He was also a chaplain at the execution site at the Mont Valérien during the German occupation of France in World War II, owing him his nickname L'Aumônier de l'Enfer (“The chaplain of Hell”) and L'archange des prisons (“The archangel of the prisons”). Often, because of his German nationality, he was the only priest who could freely visit the prisoners without being a part of the Nazi war apparatus. He then met with more than 2,000 prisoners, including the French Navy officer Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, the Communist Gabriel Péri and the Gaullist Edmond Michelet. As part of his pastoral mission, and with great peril to his life, he passed messages from the prisoners to their families and back, sometimes memorizing them. Exploiting every possible avenue to help the prisoners, he delivered German information on them to their families, so as to prepare them when interrogated. The information thus delivered prevented many arrests. This he did under a double threat to his life: besides the obvious peril of arrest,Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 8, 20252. Franz Stock Marker - wide viewincarceration and/or execution if discovered, Stock suffered severe heart disease (a fact he kept from others) and thus had been ordered to rest. Nevertheless, he went on in his endeavor.Photographed by Franz-Stock-Komitee für Deutschland e.V (via Wikimedia Commons under CC.0 license)3. Franz Stock
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Credits. This page was last revised on May 3, 2025. It was originally submitted on May 3, 2025, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 112 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 3, 2025, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
