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Franz Stock serves as prison chaplain
German priest Franz Stock (1904-1948) served as a prison chaplain in Paris at Fresnes, La Santé, and Cherche-Midi, and at the Mont Valérien execution site during the occupation of France from 1940 to 1944.
The Diocese of Nha Trang reports that Stock was known as the "Chaplain of Hell" or the "Angel of the Prisons."
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