Giuseppe Placido Nicolini

Giuseppe Placido Nicolini Maria OSB (born 6 January 1877 in Villazzano in Trento, † November 25, 1973 ) was a bishop and abbot of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

On March 25, 1893 Nicolini put his profession on at a monastery in Genoa and received on 9 July 1899, ordained priest in the Benedictine Order. After studying theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm, he taught in Rome and became the abbot of Praglia Abbey. In 1919 he became abbot of the Abbey of Santissima Trinità di Cava de ' Tirreni. On 22 June 1928 he was appointed bishop of Assisi. The bishop He was ordained by Alessio Ascalesi on September 2, 1928. He remained until his death in 1973 at the office. He is buried in the Cathedral of Assisi.

Holocaust

During the Second World War established the Nicolini Assisi Network, a secret organization of Catholic clergy, which Jews protection before the Holocaust, during the occupation of Italy by the Nazis, bot. Together with Abbot Rufino Niccaci he could hide hundreds of Jews in churches, monasteries and other religious buildings before the Holocaust. Pastor Aldo Brunacci was commissioned by Nicolini on a bailout for the Jews to offer refuge. In addition, he was thus entrusted to prepare forged travel documents to allow the emigration of Jews from Italy. Although these religious spaces were normally closed outsiders, Nicolini brought the Jews persecuted under there and granted them religious freedom. So they could celebrate Yom Kippur in 1943, together with the nuns may be present. In 1977, Nicolini was declared a Righteous Among the Nations.