[Mrs. Don-o]

Quite a man. Which of us could be like him?

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[allendale]

Sadly Ireland like most of Western Europe is devolving into post Christian neo paganism. Wonder if they will continue to produce such men.

[aposiopetic]

Thank you, Mrs. Don-o, for posting this.

Pinging Salvation and NYer to this edifying story.

[Billthedrill]

Which of us could be like him?

Rare courage there, and it surfaces in some surprising places. One such hero was named Goering. Not Hermann, under whose signature the Final Solution was codified. His brother Albert, whose exploits didn't quite meet the standards of proof of Yad Vashem, more's the pity. But neither of these guys did it for any reward on this earth.

[Publius]

“The Scarlet and the Black” is one of my desert island DVDs. It is one of Gregory Peck’s best performances.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[heterosupremacist]

Thank you so much for posting this story, which I was unfamiliar with...

[SuziQ]

I'm reading a book, "Beneath a Scarlet Sky", about a young man from Milan who worked with a priest leading Jews and downed fliers over the mountains into Switzerland in his teens. He then, at the behest of his parents, who didn't want him pressed into the Italian Army and be sent to Russia, joined an organization of the German Army, and became a driver for a high ranking German officer, spying on his activities, and passing the information to a group that passed it on to the Allies.

The book recounts how the Cardinal of Milan also help hide Jews and move them on to Switzerland. So the Church was quite active in sheltering Jews and other enemies of the Nazis, as much as it possibly could be.