Trivia: Look who’s talking

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He was a court preacher. The people flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and homeliness of his language, the grotesqueness of his humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the court in particular. But he was violently anti-Jewish and ultra-nationalist. He wrote, “Outside of the Devil, humanity has no greater enemy than the Jews…For their beliefs, they deserve not only the gallows but the funeral pyre.” He accused them of ritual murder, desecration of the host, poisoning wells and spreading the plague.

What’s the name of the guy?
And what’s the location of the statue?

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4 Comments so far

  1. Michael (unregistered) on May 25th, 2006 @ 8:10 pm

    It’s behind the Burggarten, but I forgot his name, Ignatius?

  2. grenz (unregistered) on May 25th, 2006 @ 8:54 pm

    ignatius? nope!

  3. petra (unregistered) on May 26th, 2006 @ 10:47 am

    it´s abraham a sancta clara!

  4. grenz (unregistered) on May 26th, 2006 @ 11:00 am

    yes, petra, you’re right!


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