Memorial Plaque for NS Victims in the Klagenfurt Cathedral

On initiative of Bishop Egon Kapellari, a memorial plaque was installed in the second side chapel on the left in the Klagenfurt Cathedral in the year 2000. It remembers people who were murdered in the 20th century because of their faith. Pope John Paul II. called upon the world to dedicate the year 2000 to remembering people who had been persecuted because of their faith. Apart from one person named on the memorial plaque, all the others were victims of National Socialism. Anna Ferdinanda Ploner was a nun who was murdered in 1977 by rebels during her work in development cooperation in Zimbabwe. In total, 17 priests from the Diocese of Gurk, including many who spoke Slovene, were arrested and deported by the Nazis. The biblical quote on the memorial plaque comes from the Old Testament, Solomon's Wisdom.