Posts Tagged ‘Fr Joaquim Carreira’

Priest honoured for saving Italian Jews from holocaust

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

A Portuguese priest has been honoured for his wartime actions in saving of dozens of Jews during the Nazi holocaust. Fr Joaquim Carreira risked his life to save others while at a Rome pontifical college during the Second World War. A nephew of Fr Carreria, also a priest, received a medal on his behalf from Read more