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Theodor Alberto Faiss (1 July 1907 – 7 October 1914) was a boy whose death in Dornach, at the age of seven, was frequently invoked by the anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner as having spiritual significance. A well-liked child who frequently ran errands, Faiss was killed when, picking up groceries for Steiner's housekeeper, a horse-drawn wagon overturned on him. In at least fifteen speeches and lectures thereafter, Steiner invoked Faiss's death as what he termed a karmically voluntary sacrifice that provided a protective spiritual sheath for the Goetheanum, the headquarters of the anthroposophical movement.