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| Pope who used his diplomatic skills to end WWI. He gave away vast sums of Vatican money for relief work among thousands of people who were left homeless, sick, or wounded by the war. | Pope Benedict XV |
| The first pope of the 20th C who lowered the age for First Communion from adolescence to the “age of reason” and encouraged all Catholics to receive Holy Communion frequently. | Pope Pius X |
| Pope who called for a worldwide day of prayer for suffering Christians in Russia. Issued Quadragesimo Anno ( On Reconstructing the Social Order) | Pope Pius XI |
| In the midst of the depression, a young single mother, journalist and recent convert to Catholicism founded the Catholic Worker Movement. | Dorothy Day |
| A French peasant and wondering self-made philosopher who helped Dorothy Day found the Catholic Worker Movement. | Peter Maurin |
| Pope who faced the terrible dilemma of how to resist Hitler while keeping Catholics safe. He chose neutrality. | Pope Pius XII |
| A Catholic Austrian peasant farmer who was martyred in 1943 for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army. | Franz Jaegerstaetter |
| Her book, The Hiding Place, tells the story of how her whole family risked their lives to hide Jews from the Nazi in Holland or the Netherlands. | Corrie Ten Boom |
| Born to a Jewish family but later a convert to Catholicism, was a German university professor and writer of philosophy until the Nazis dismissed her from teaching because of her Jewish background. She became a nun in Holland, but even in the convent the Nazi saw her as dangerous. She was taken from the convent by the dreaded Nazi S.S. police, sent to Auschwitz, tortured, and executed in the gas chamber. | Edith Stein |
| A priest imprisoned by the Nazi at the concentration camp of Auschwitz, Poland who took the [place of another prisoner who had been selected to be starved to death. Kolbe gave his life for the other prisoner’s because that man had a wife and children whom he could not bear to leave. | Maxmillan Kolbe |
| He started out as an Italian peasant named Angelo Roncalli. As a pope he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to begin an ecumenical council called Vatican Council II | Pope John XXIII |
| Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order that cares for the world’s poorest and most abandoned people. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
