{"id":336,"date":"2025-11-10T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/11\/10\/gertruda-detzel-the-hidden-flame-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:19:03","slug":"gertruda-detzel-the-hidden-flame-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/2025\/11\/10\/gertruda-detzel-the-hidden-flame-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Gertruda Detzel: The Hidden Flame of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: Who was Gertruda Detzel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Gertruda Detzel was a laywoman born in 1903 in the Caucasus to an ethnic German family, known for keeping her faith alive during Soviet persecution.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What happened to Gertruda Detzel during Soviet rule?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: She was deported to Kazakhstan in 1941 and spent 8 years in Soviet labor camps, 5 of which were for her unwavering faith and missionary zeal.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What is the significance of her case reaching Rome?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: It marks the beginning of the Roman phase of her beatification process and is the first time a laywoman from Central Asia has reached this stage.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: How did Gertruda Detzel support the Church in Kazakhstan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: After her release from prison, she settled in Karaganda and, as a laywoman, gathered people for prayer services and helped families maintain their faith when priests were unavailable.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What was found during the diocesan investigation of her life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Researchers uncovered her original Soviet case file, which confirmed the 5 years she spent imprisoned for her faith, and she was officially rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan in 1989.<\/p>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/servant-of-god-gertruda-detzel. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1UulSaox7e\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/servant-of-god-gertruda-detzel\">Gertruda Detzel: The Hidden Flame of Faith<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Gertruda Detzel: The Hidden Flame of Faith&#8221; &#8212; EWTN Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/servant-of-god-gertruda-detzel\/embed#?secret=jWcQJvMISb#?secret=1UulSaox7e\" data-secret=\"1UulSaox7e\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Who was Gertruda Detzel? A: Gertruda Detzel was a laywoman born in 1903 in the Caucasus to an ethnic German family, known for keeping her faith alive during Soviet persecution. Q: What happened to Gertruda Detzel during Soviet rule? A: She was deported to Kazakhstan in 1941 and spent 8 years in Soviet labor [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}