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http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/26/1009410/italian-priest-named-righteous-among-nations
Italian priest named Righteous Among Nations
November 26, 2009
ROME (JTA) -- An Italian Roman Catholic priest has been honored posthumously as a Righteous Among Nations.
Monsignor Maurizio Michele Raffa, who died in 1957 at the age of 51, was honored for having hidden the Jewish Di Castro family in 1943-44, thus saving them from deportation by the Nazi occupiers.
Israeli ambassador to Italy, Gideon Meir, made the presentation last Monday to Raffa's nephew, in a ceremony conducted at the church in Rome where Raffa served as priest.
Taking part in the ceremony were Jewish community leaders and a member of the family that Raffa saved.