The columns are monumental and cumbersome, also to represent the burden of the regime and the suffering of martyrdom. They are devoid of writing but surrounded by walls that illustrate a story of salvation. There are eight of them, symbolizing infinity, the Eternal, like the Eternity that Franz earned through martyrdom, and they indicate the hearth that represents the home and the family understood as companionship with destiny, without which martyrdom would not have been possible.

The story of Franz and Franziska is the tale of two young spouses, two simple farmers living in the first half of the twentieth century who find themselves facing the events of Nazi domination and the Second World War.
"We believe like children and act like men," wrote Franz Jägerstätter in 1941. Two years later, this Austrian farmer, who lived in a small village on the border with Bavaria, and whom the Church declared blessed in 2007, refused to fight for the Nazi cause and was executed on August 9, 1943.