An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem was put on the road to sainthood.
Odoardo Focherini was beatified — the step before sainthood — at a ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Carpi, near Modena, in northern Italy.
Declared a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church, Focherini is believed to be the first Righteous Gentile, and the first person to be killed for saving Jews, to be beatified.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/2013/06/16/news-opinion/world/italian-righteous-gentile-killed-for-saving-jews-beatified#ixzz2WOqgVNpV
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