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To: vladimir998

thanks for the link!


7 posted on 11/07/2008 1:08:38 PM PST by Nihil Obstat
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To: Nihil Obstat

By the way, 400 Jews served as papal Palatine guards (at least on paper) and 240 of those lived in the Vatican during the German occupation of Rome. The Palatine guards’ ranks swelled from 300 members to 4,000 during WWII. Most of these new guards were people in hiding who were dependent upon Pius XII and the Vatican passports that he gave them as Palatine guards!

Lapide talks about this in his classic book if I remember correctly.


8 posted on 11/07/2008 1:20:26 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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