Background
Waldemar Maximilian was born in Groß Strehlitz to Anton and Julija (née Hepner). His family moved near Banja Luka in Austria-Hungary when his father got a job there as a state forester.
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Waldemar Maximilian was born in Groß Strehlitz to Anton and Julija (née Hepner). His family moved near Banja Luka in Austria-Hungary when his father got a job there as a state forester.
He attended school in Saint St. Petersburg.
Therefore, he continued education in Trappist Mariastern Abbey. In 1931 he left the Trappist order and joined the diocesan priests after which he was appointed parochial vicar in Ljubunčić. In 1936 he was transferred to Bosanski Petrovac where he was appointed parish priest.
Since the majority of Catholics of the parish had lived in Drvar Waldemar moved the parish seat there.
On 26 July 1941 he went with his parishioners on a pilgrimage to Saint Ann near Knin. On the way back to Drvar on 27 July, in village Trubar on the station Vaganj, Serbian Chetnik rebels stopped the train from which they separated pilgrims.
After they killed them they threw their bodies into a pit Golubnjača.
He was ordained a priest on 2 February 1917 as a member of Maristern Abbey where he served as a teacher in Abbey"s elementary school and as a governor of the Abbey"s resources.
