Blessed Giuseppe Girotti - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:27:51 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Blessed Giuseppe Girotti - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Priest who was Nazi concentration camp victim is beatified https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/05/09/priest-nazi-concentration-camp-victim-beatified/ Thu, 08 May 2014 19:05:13 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=57489 A Dominican friar killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, after he was arrested for helping Jews, has been beatified. Blessed Giuseppe Girotti, OP, was beatified in Alba, Italy, the day before the canonisations of St John Paul II and St John XXIII. In 1995, Israel's Yad Vashem holocaust memorial declared him "righteous among Read more

Priest who was Nazi concentration camp victim is beatified... Read more]]> A Dominican friar killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, after he was arrested for helping Jews, has been beatified.

Blessed Giuseppe Girotti, OP, was beatified in Alba, Italy, the day before the canonisations of St John Paul II and St John XXIII.

In 1995, Israel's Yad Vashem holocaust memorial declared him "righteous among the gentiles".

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