Venerable Emilio Recchia

1888–1969 · Contemporary · Stigmatines

Feast day: June 27

Biography

Emilio Recchia, born on February 19, 1888, in Verona, Italy, and died in 1969, was an Italian religious figure who protected about a hundred Jews during the Second World War. He is recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and as Venerable by the Catholic Church.

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