Italian cardinal; archbishop of Turin (1930-65).
TLS - Typewritten Letter Signed; one page, 1951. Written to Sindaco, Mayor of Pianezza. Reads: I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the devout thought accorded me as archbishop and titular of this parish of Pianezza, and congratulate you on assuming the office of mayor of the municipality. I invoke upon Your Excellency, and your collaborators, the help and assistance of God for the good of the population of Pianezza, so dear to me. With all due respect please believe me...
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During World War II, Fossati was an outspoken opponent of Fascism, and asked that Catholics take Jewish refugees and Gypsies into their homes. He convinced the German Army to avoid Turin, thus sparing the city from devastation, in its 1945 retreat. Of Catholics in the Italian Resistance, Peter Hebblethwaite wrote that, by early 1944, some 20,000 partisans had emerged from Catholic Action. Known as the "Green Flames", they were supported by sympathetic provincial clergy in the North, who pronounced the Germans to be "unjust invaders", whom it was lawful and meritorious to repel. "Bishops tended to be more cautious", wrote Hebblethwaite, but Maurilio Fossati "visited partisan units in the mountains, heard their confessions and said Mass for them."
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