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Their testimony is still burningly relevant today: "Extremism from the right and left, contempt for human dignity and the situation of the church require a courageous testimony from Christians, which can also be based on the example of the three Catholic Lübeck chaplains Hermann Lange, Johannes Prassek and Eduard Müller as well as the Protestant pastor Carl Friedrich Stellbrink," emphasize Vicar General Ulrich Beckwermert and the Director of the Diocesan Museum Osnabrück, Dr. Hermann Queckenstedt, in a press release on the opening of an exhibition on "The Lübeck Martyrs" in Osnabrück Cathedral. Twelve panels provide an insight into the life and death as well as the afterlife of the four clergymen who were executed by the henchmen of the National Socialist terror regime in Hamburg on November 10, 1943 for alleged subversive activities. Places of veneration, even in today's diocese of Osnabrück, were an essential prerequisite for the success of a church process that was concluded with the beatification of the chaplains on June 25, 2011 in Lübeck. The exhibition will be opened next Sunday (April 27) at 3 p.m. in the cathedral with a spiritual impulse by Beckwermert and Queckenstedt and can be viewed there daily outside of church services.