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Mural of Monsignor O'Flaherty in Killarney, Ireland. Some sources incorrectly state that in 2003, he became the first Irish person honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel. [28] However, according to the official list, this is not the case and Mary Elmes remains the only Irish person so honoured.
Opposing Kappler is Monsignor O'Flaherty, an Irish-born Vatican priest who establishes an underground organization which provides safe haven and escape routes to escaped POWs, Jews, and refugees in Rome. O'Flaherty is assisted in this enterprise by others, including locals such as O'Flaherty's platonic companion Francesca Lombardo and her ...
A particularly detested adversary of Kappler's was Irish Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty of the Sacred Congregation De Propaganda Fide. The Monsignor's activities covertly assisting Jews and other fugitives led both Kappler and his Italian colleague Pietro Koch to repeatedly, and vainly, plot O'Flaherty's kidnapping, torture, and summary execution ...
Kappler had a white line drawn around the boundary of the Vatican and offered a bounty on O'Flaherty's head. O'Flaherty forgave Kappler after the war, and became a regular visitor to his prison cell - eventually presiding at his conversion to Catholicism. O'Flaherty's story was dramatized in the 1983 film The Scarlet and the Black, and Ireland ...
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty was an Irish priest who saved thousands of people, British and American servicemen and Jews, during World War II while in the Vatican in Rome. His story is told in two books and a film: J. P. Gallagher (1968), Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, New York: Coward-McCann
The Rt Rev. Hugh Monsignor O'Flaherty, the 'Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican' during World War II. The film The Scarlet and the Black was made about the exploits of the Monsignor. Joseph Walshe, leading Irish diplomat from the 1920s to the 1950s and Secretary of the Department of External Affairs during the Second World War.
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In Rome, some 4,000 Italian Jews and escaped prisoners of war avoided deportation, many of them hidden in safe houses or evacuated from Italy by a resistance group organized by the Irish-born priest and Vatican official Hugh O'Flaherty. Msgr. O'Flaherty used his political connections to help secure sanctuary for dispossessed Jews. [132]