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Alexander Schmorell

Alexander Schmorell

Co-Founder of White Rose
Alexander Schmorell was a Russian-German student at Munich University who, with five others, formed a resistance group known as White Rose which was active against the Nazi German regime from June 1942 to February 1943. Wikipedia
Born: September 16, 1917, Orenburg, Russia
Died: July 13, 1943 (age 25 years), Munich, Germany
Canonized: 5 February 2012, Munich, Germany by ROCOR
Major shrine: Cathedral of the Holy New-Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, Munich, Bavaria, Germany