Fr. Karl Leisner died of tuberculosis after having been imprisoned in Dachau. He was beatified in 1996.
The number of German Catholic Priests that resisted the Nazis is really not appreciated. They were not alone, of course Evangelicals (Lutherans) did as well, but nonetheless their numbers are remarkable, and in some instance their resistances to the Nazis is astounding.
St. Pio of Pietrelcina was ordained a Priest. He was 23 years old.
Often in ill health, he was holy from an early age. During World War One, in which he was called into service multiple times, he became a stigmatic. He was a phenomenal modern saint.
Fr. Alberic Crescitelli (1郭西德) was executed by Boxers in China. He was beatified as one of the Martyr Saints of China.
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The Japanese carried out the Kalagong massacre, killing villagers in the area after they failed to provide any information about guerrillas in the area.
The Japanese also murdered Peter To Rot, a Catholic from New Guinea, in a bizarre incidence demonstrating the severe Japanese anti Western view and, frankly, the Japanese debasement of the period, which not only reflected itself in murder, but in a chattel slavery view of women and sex. He was executed for defending a woman whom another planned to kidnap and force into a plural marriage, with the Japanese supporting plural marriages in New Guinea (they were not legal in Japan). He was arrested and then later murdered on this day. He will be canonized this October.
Bishop Antonino Fantosati and Father Joseph Gambaro were tortured and killed by Boxer rebels. They were both canonized as party of the Martyrs of China.
Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.
Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.
The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.
British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.
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