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Phineas (Num. 25:11) Orthodox cal.
Maximilian of Theveste Martyr 295
Paul Aurelian Bishop, Brittany 575
Gregory B Rome 604 Anglican, Eastern, Lutheran cals.
Theophanes Abbot Confessor, Cyzicus 818
Alphege Bishop Winchester 951
D
ante Parlani was 107 when he was interviewed in the 2014 documentary
My Italian Secret, which tells the story of Italians who hid Jews from the Nazis. Dante was bright and articulate, with a remarkable memory.
Before the war, Italy under the fascists did not persecute Jews. But after a visit to Italy by Hitler in 1938, they were regulated by new Laws for the protection of the race. Police were given lists of Jewish residents and official registries noted people of the Jewish race. Jews were not, however, deported or sent to concentration camps but lived under heavy restrictions.
J
esus said, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. No man has ever made such a claim. Christians know it to be true. Our Saviour teaches us every day with His own voice, reads a line from the matins of the Orthodox Sunday of the Prodigal Son, before Lent. Reading the red-letter words spoken by Jesus in the Gospels is not like reading the words of Plato or Cicero. Christ s living voice is still heard. His teachings and parables are towering monuments of truth, mileposts marking the road to the Kingdom of God.
On the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:11-32 is read. Fr. Thomas Hopko noted in his podcast on the parable that educated people today would know the basic story of the Prodigal Son. I doubt that is true any longer. Another inheritance has been squandered.