Known as the “Apostle of Ireland”, Saint Patrick is the primary patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick’s Day is observed on March 17, the supposed day of his death.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.