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Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
Author: J. P. Gallagher
A towering Irish priest, Monsignor Hugh Joseph O'Flaherty became the most wanted man in Rome, the scourge of the Nazis and Fascists, savior of more Allied lives than any single person during the Second World War. — Standing alone on the steps of St. Peter's in his black and purple robes, he was literally and figuratively the Scarl...  more », openly defying the German SS as he waited for people in distress and escapers to come to him, to be saved from imprisonment, torture and probably death. Quite often too, the burly Monsignor defied his own Catholic authorities.

On a typical night he would have between one and two hundred men and women hidden in Rome alone, some in the German college itself. others practically next door to Gestapo headquarters, and once in an Italian police barracks. He even organized his own information inside the Gestapo.
ISBN: 494035
Publication Date: 1967
Pages: 184
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Publisher: Catholic Book Club
Book Type: Hardcover
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