Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty


Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty

Dubbed "Ireland's Oskar Schindler", Hugh O'Flaherty masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican, to help Jews and escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis during the second world war..
Often putting himself at serious risk, he used a series of safe houses and church buildings and sheltered an estimated 6,500 people.

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