SAINT
saint-giuseppe-girotti
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Giuseppe Girotti, OP was an Italian Dominican priest who was a biblical scholar and a professor of theology. During World War II, he worked to aid Jewish people amid the Nazi Holocaust. Girotti was arrested in 1944 and moved from prison to prison before being imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he befriended Josef Beran and Carlo Manziana.
feast Day
04-01
birth Date
1905-07-19
death Date
1945-04-01
canonization Status
beatified
feast Month
4
feast Day Of Month
1

