Friday 19 April |

Saint of the Day: Bl. James Duckett

World War II

NAKAJIMA

John Burger

The Japanese war pilot who came to Pearl Harbor to apologize

dreidels

J-P Mauro

New Yorker amasses collection of 4,000 dreidels from pre-WWII

Cross of Lorraine

Lucien de Guise

This cross was chosen by Charles de Gaulle as a response to Hitler’s swastika

Agnès Pinard Legry

The Jewish man saved from the Nazis by a cardinal, a monsignor, and a diplomat

Francisco Veneto

Holocaust survivor sends letter of gratitude to Pope Francis

Pope Francis stands by graves with flowers at the French military cemetery

Kathleen N. Hattrup

The graves cry out for peace: Pope visits military cemetery for All Souls Day

Camille de Longvilliers

A life full of contagious love: Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon

Placido Cortese

Philip Kosloski

This Italian priest was killed for helping Jews in WWII

MADELEINE PAULIAC

Sandra Ferrer

The heroic doctor who helped nuns who were sexually assaulted at the end of WW2

atomic bomb

Inma Alvarez

The Catholic priest who blessed the atomic bomb repented later in life

FRANCE-WWII-LIBERATION OF PARIS

Lauriane Vofo Kana

Nazi flag on church in occupied France torn down by teens, including future priest

Agnès Pinard Legry

How a priest saved a French town from bombing in World War II

Gelsomino Del Guercio

100-year-old sister of Our Lady of Sion recounts her escape from the Nazis

Anna Gębalska-Berekets

How can there be so much goodness in a concentration camp? Meet Blessed Julia

Auschwitz

J-P Mauro

Auschwitz’s cell 21 still bears this carving of the Sacred Heart

OF ANIMALS AND MEN

J-P Mauro

New documentary follows true story behind ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’

Sister Margherita Marchione

John Burger

Pius XII defender Sr. Margherita Marchione dies at 99

LIDIA MAKSYMOWICZ

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Pope kisses the tattooed number on arm of concentration camp survivor

ERICK SCHWAM

Dolors Massot

Man leaves fortune to town that saved him from the Nazis

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John Burger

In times of war, this is what Catholic soldiers did when they couldn’t go to Mass

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