Blessed Jakob Kern

Soldier. Patriot. Priest.

Join me today to meet a man whose search for God took him into the harshest conditions of the First World War.

Kern after the war. Although he was always friendly and cheerful, he was in near constant pain at this time, 1917-19.

Name: Jakob Kern, Franz Alexander Kern

Life: 1897 - 1924

Status: Blessed

Feast: October 20