The following events cannot be reconstructed with certainty. One source, Adolf Höggerl, who had left Rabensteiner and based his later report on a secondary source, wrote that a Russian Officer had violently objected to the removal of the bodies and had rushed into the church shouting for the priest. A young woman fled screaming from the church, and Rabensteiner, who had heard her screams, quickly ran into the church. The other version of events (a written testimonial by Sr. M. Burgharda) claims that Rabensteiner hid a young woman, who was being pursued by a Russian soldier, in the kitchen and was seen talking to the soldier, who then followed him inside. Rabensteiner was found shot dead in front of the high altar of the church. He was buried by permission of the Russian Commandant in the cloister of Stift Neukloster. Father Alberich Rabensteiner is named as a martyr in the Austrian martyrology of the twentieth century.