Biography of monsignor hugh oflaherty

Irish Catholic priest (1898–1963)

Hugh O'FlahertyCBE (28 February 1898 – 30 October 1963) was an IrishCatholic priest, a senior official of the Roman Curia and a significant figure in the Catholic resistance to Nazism.

During the Second World War, O'Flaherty was responsible for saving 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews. His ability to evade the traps set by the German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Chief Herbert Kappler earned him the nickname "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican".^[1]

After the war, he was named a papal domestic prelate by Pope Pius XII and served as notary of the Holy Office.

He worked alongside and closely assisted Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani until 1960.

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Prior to being incapacitated by a stroke in that same year, O'Flaherty was about to be removed from all his Curia positions and "promoted" by Pope John XXIII to Papal Nuncio to Tanzania. He returned to his native Ireland, where he died in 1963.

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