Talk:Maurus Gerner-Beuerle

User:Charles01, I was thinking of nominating your article for DYK. The only problem is I don’t know what the hook (e.g Did you know… that?) should be. If you have any suggestions then let me know. Sahaib3005 (talk) 20:01, 1 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Nothing comes to mind instantly.  I tend to leave dyk nominations to others - especially where I have been the principal initial compiler of the entry, or even where I have merely contributed significantly - on the basis that this makes for a greater semblance of objectivity.   But I would think the thing to do would be to wait 24 hours till I've done the last couple of paras, then read the whole thing from beginning to end, grab a coffee and as you drink it see what you remember.   (Obviously this approach depends how your memory is feeling!)   The thing that I find sticks in my mind right now is the trouble "our man" had raising funds for building a new church in the 1930s, when the parish council in the village where he was the pastor (except he was away having tuberculosis when the thing blew up) split over whether to accept a donation from a Jewish shop keeper in the teeth of opposition from another shopkeeper in the village who was a member of the parish council and a Hitler stalwart.   Trouble is, I don't know from the sources accessed exactly how the story ends.   Though I DO know that the church got built, so they must have got the funding from someone somewhere!  Otherwise I wonder if there's something he said in a sermon.   I think that for contemporaries it was his sermons that he was famous for but .... I haven't got to that bit yet.   It's also possible that he shared some deeply important thought (or thought trigger) which he included in something theological that he wrote, but the sources I've come across so far have more on his "Life" than on his "Works".


 * Ho hum.  Time for bed in my time zone.   Thanks for these thought trggers.   Be well.  Charles01 (talk) 20:24, 1 September 2021 (UTC)