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Heroic Catholic priest described as a ‘guardian angel’ in WWII is beatified
CNA, Catholic Business Journal—As Allied forces bombed the Nazi-occupied Italian city of Bologna in the fall of 1943, a 28-year-old Italian priest was seen digging through the rubble with a pickaxe desperately trying to rescue civilian survivors. “I remember Fr. Giovanni with the pickaxe in his hand working so hard as if he were digging…