PRAYER FOR ENEMIES BY SAINT NICHOLAS VELIMIROVICH

In 1941, with the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, Serbian Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in the infamous Dachau Prison Camp. He spent two years in Dachau, witnessing and suffering some of the cruelest torture of human beings the world has known. During this time, he wrote what is now known as the Prayer for Enemies — a beautiful must-read piece of poetry.