" A Hidden Life" is the perfect movie for the Solemnity of the Holy Family

"A Hidden Life" tells the love story of Franz and Fani Jägerstätter and their children.  Franz was beheaded for refusing a loyalty oath to Hitler and has subsequently been beatified.  Watching this movie will leave you with no doubt that his marvelous young bride should also be beatified!

As noted by Deacon Stephen Greydanus (National Catholic Register, 12/11/19), "Franz has no reason to think that even his neighbors...will ever think of him as anything but a misguided traitor (and, indeed, for decades after the war, that is precisely how he was remembered)."  The deacon shares a quote from George Eliot, which the film maker uses in the closing credits:

"the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs"