Italian Sports Star Named Righteous Gentile Posthumously
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed. Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. (Psalms 37:25-27) Gino Bartali, a well-known Italian sportsman and public […]
Indiana-born Mennonite Only Fourth American to be Honored as Righteous Gentile
Happy is he that considereth the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil. (Psalms 41:2) There is none so poor as one whose life is in danger, nor none so generous as one who risks his life to save another. Lois Gunden, a Mennonite from Goshen, Indiana, was one such generous […]
Righteous Gentile Beatified by Italian Church
“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” (Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5) On June 15, over five thousand spectators gathered in Carpi, Italy’s Piazza of the Martyrs to beatify Odoardo Focherini, a man who worked throughout the Holocaust to save Jews until he himself was killed by the Nazis. Beatification […]