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«Tomorrow You Will Be My Priest of the Heart!»

They now tried to drag him to court for this. They did not succeed in this
matter, however, because it all happened too many years ago and they
could not lock him up for examination. But they were determined to
achieve this in order to prevent Nikolaus from being ordained. False
witnesses were sought and, as always, also found. On these false
charges of an alleged theft, immediately after Holy Mass, Bishop
Franck was arrested and sent to a remand prison to await trial.

What then Was GOD’s Purpose?

The bishop had recognised GOD’s will and had already ordained
Nikolaus subdeacon. All of a sudden, he began to have doubts.
Ordaining a married man to the priesthood affected him too much. He
started to brood. And now GOD intervened! Bishop Franck was taken
away from his beloved flock. They were orphans now. The bishop,
however, could not bear this. He wanted to give them a priest. In this
difficult situation he saw himself obliged to ordain the subdeacon
Nikolaus priest so that the little sheep would not be orphaned and the
Church would be shepherded with the Most Blessed Sacrament and the
other Sacraments. So he tried everything in prison for this ordination to
be carried through. A lawyer, Jewish in descent and faith, came to his
aid!

Meanwhile, how did Nikolaus get on? Let us hear it from himself:
«I suffered terribly in these moments as they took away Bishop Franck,
and I, as subdeacon, stayed behind with the thought that the bishop
was never to come back again. I went before the Tabernacle, and
broke down crying in front of it. I felt my heart break at that moment. It
had become too much for my already so much martyred heart. I
spent the night before the Most Blessed Sacrament with JESUS, full of
heartache, grief and sorrow, but also full of doubt. I poured out my
sorrow to the SAVIOUR: „Could it all have been my mere imagination,
dear SAVIOUR? Should it all indeed not have come from You?“ and
so forth, and so on and so on.»

Nikolaus put on – it was the dead of night – the subdeacon’s vestments
and incensed the Tabernacle (in mourning that the SAVIOUR was now

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