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JERUSALEM (CNS) -- The Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center posthumously recognized two French clergy members who lived in Rome as Righteous Among the Nations Oct. 21.
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- The Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center posthumously recognized two French clergy members who lived in Rome as Righteous Among the Nations Oct. 21.
Cardinal Eugène Tisserant and Msgr. André Bouquin posthumously received the World Holocaust Remembrance Center's highest honor for those who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Nazis during World War II.
The Jewish Community of Florence remains relatively little known locally, and yet it offers a lifelong commitment to Jewish heritage.
Maria Agnese Tribbioli was born 142 years ago, on April 20, 1879, in Florence, Italy. On June 16, 2009, she was posthumously recognized as Righteous among the Nations for her life-saving feats during the Holocaust. She was also proclaimed Servant of God by the Catholic Church, a first step towards her possible canonization as saint. Mother Maria had two sisters, Evelina and Maria Francesca. Their father died when Maria was 11 years old, leaving the family in a very frail economic condition. The sisters received a solid Catholic education and Maria became a nun in 1901, known by the name Sor M...