An unimaginable event took place that Sunday morning, December 17, 1944, in Camp 26 of the Dachau concentration camp — Karl Leisner, the prisoner who was always smiling, who for five years had been the consoling angel to his fellow sufferers, was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ. Seriously ill, he was near exhaustion. On the cross he received priestly anointing. His beautiful eyes — calmed, matured by suffering, consumed by fever —proclaimed the undying joy of Christ Jesus. He had but nine months to live… 

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