Paul Oestreicher reflects on his life and his guardian angel St Michael: Even in Hell on Earth, there are glimpses of Heaven. A Catholic priest, no longer young in years, himself a prisoner, offered to take the place of a much younger Jewish prisoner who had three children and was heading for the gas chamber. That is not the normal way of the world. Having rid heaven of sin, it is the kind of world the Archangel Michael came to establish on earth. The concentration camp guards accepted the priest’s offer. The Jewish prisoner lived. Miracles happen. My father was born to secular Jewish parents in 1896. Recruited in 1914 like all his school mates, and later a lieutenant in the Bavarian horse artillery, he survived the horrific battle of the Somme. He began to reflect on the meaning of life – and death. Medical study followed. As a young paediatrician, driving through the forest in deep snow, visiting a sick child, he heard a voice, stopped his little two-seater car: Paul, go and be baptised. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE