https://gregorius-hesse.at/person/To the person
It is certainly unusual to dedicate a home page to a "simple" priest, who has remained unknown to many even in the circles of the traditional Catholic movement.
Col. Hesse bags his coltBut the career and personality of Dr. Gregorius Hesse are equally unusual. As a doctoral theologian and canon lawyer, he gave up his predetermined career in the Vatican when he realized that he could neither or wanted to come to terms with modernism, which prevailed in Rome.
Without financial security, he lived in his Viennese homeland and had to earn his living through lecture tours and translation work. On the other hand, however, he enjoyed the freedoms that the emergency laws that came into force as a a rising act as a a force of the church crisis.
Dr. Hesse distinguished the rare combination of great scholarship with the ability to pass on his knowledge in a comprehensible and engagingly entertaining way. –
"Don Gregor's" friends will also be remembered for his unique, dazzling character:
Just as Dr. Hesse was "professionally" a great admirer of Our Lady of Fatima, Popes Innocent III and Pius X, and Archbishop Lefebvres, he was privately an equally passionate tram driver, model railwayman and northern era. He was notorious for his food and drink resistance.
And also visually Dr. Hesse fell out of his age:
"The Talar is the correct uniform for the army of Christ, this garment has unfortunately become very life-threatening for me. Reasons for taste force me to return to the 19th century, because as every morally excellent person knows, the 20th century has not added anything to the culture of humanity in terms of clothing – on the contrary."
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