Word: fossati
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Died. Maurilio Cardinal Fossati, 88, Archbishop of Turin since 1930, and one of Italy's most respected churchmen, who was a leading contender for the papacy in 1939 at the young age of 62, went through World War II as an active antiFascist, denouncing the mass transport of Italian laborers to Germany, sheltering Jewish refugees in the homes of Catholics, then, in 1945, persuading the retreating German army to bypass Turin, thus sparing the city from devastation; of pneumonia; in Turin...
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