Bonhoeffer's Last Bread

On the morning of April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in a makeshift chapel at the Schönberg prison school, surrounded by a handful of fellow captives. He had no altar, no silver chalice, no vestments. He had a scrap of bread and the words of Scripture. He knew the Gestapo was coming for him. He broke the bread anyway. The German pastor had spent two years in Nazi prisons for his role in the resistance against Hitler.…