Cardinal suhard to be a witness
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Barbara P. Barnett, Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, is an author/filmmaker, teacher of French and recipient of the Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in Teaching award from the American Association of Teachers of French. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1993 to conduct interviews in France with French Holocaust survivors, members of the Resistance, historians and Christian rescuers, and has subsequently directed six films about Nazi-occupied France, five as of this writing (November 2014) with honor students from The Agnes Irwin School.
Mary Beth Smith is a 2012 graduate of The Agnes Irwin School, where she was inducted into the Société Honoraire de français (the French Honor Society) and awarded the Modern Language Prize for French at graduation. She attends Washington and Lee University where she plans to major in French and Classics.
The Documentary
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, was born in Paris in 1926. Shortly before the German invasion of France, he converted to Catholicism. Hi
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Jean-Marie Lustiger
French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃maʁilystiʒe]ⓘ; 17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. His life is depicted in the 2013 film Le métis de Dieu (The Jewish Cardinal).
Life and work
Early years
Lustiger was born Aron Lustiger in Paris to a Jewish family. His parents, Charles and Gisèle Lustiger, were Ashkenazi Jews from Będzin, Poland, who had left Poland around World War I.[1] Lustiger's father ran a hosiery shop. Aron Lustiger studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, where he first encountered anti-Semitism.[2][3] Visiting Germany in 1937, he was hosted by an anti-NaziProtestant family whose children had been required to join the Hitler Youth.[1][4]
Sometime between the ages of ten and twelve, Lustiger came across a Protestant Bible and felt i
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Cathedral in Paris, France, built 1163–1345 in Gothic style
This article is about the French cathedral. For other uses, see Notre-Dame de Paris (disambiguation).
Church in Paris, France
| Notre-Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|
South façade and the nave of Notre-Dame in 2017, two years before the fire | |
| 48°51′11″N2°21′00″E / 48.85306°N 2.35000°E / 48.85306; 2.35000 | |
| Location | Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris |
| Country | France |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Website | Official website |
| Former name(s) | Replaced the Cathedral of Etienne |
| Status | Cathedral, minor basilica |
| Founded | 24 March 1163 to 25 April 1163 (laying of the cornerstone) |
| Founder(s) | Maurice de Sully |
| Consecrated | 19 May 1182 (high altar) |
| Relics held | Crown of thorns, a nail from the True Cross, and a sliver of the True Cross |
| Functional status | Reopened 7 December 2024 |
| Architectural type | Gothic |
| Style | French Gothic |
| Years built | 1163–1345 |
| Groundbreaking | 1163; 862 years ago (116
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