Author name: Alfred Delp

Alfred Delp, SJ (1907—1945), a German Jesuit martyr, who openly resisted the Nazis. He was falsely arrested for treason and in the six months of incarceration wrote some of his most important philosophical works. He was given the choice of being set free, if he would leave the Society of Jesus. Delp refused and was executed on February 2, 1945. His body was cremated and his ashes scattered over sewage fields.