Pope Pius X11 was well aware (and intervened to ensure that Church communities were placed under Vatican State diplomatic protection to ensure the safety of their "guests") that Hugh O'Flaherty was working with the Allied escape network active the length, and breadth of Italy...supervised by MI6...and the risks that such work posed for those determined to conceal thousands of innocent people from death at the hands of the German occupiers.
This Wikpedia article provides the background to Mons. O'Flaherty's humanitarian assistance for those in need of practical help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_O%27Flaherty
I quote:
When the Allies arrived in Rome in June 1944, 6,425 of the escapees were still alive. O'Flaherty demanded that German prisoners be treated properly as well. He took a plane to South Africa to meet Italian POWs and to Jerusalem to visit Jewish refugees. Of the 9,700 Jews in Rome, 1,007 had been shipped to Auschwitz. The rest were hidden, 5,000 of them by the official Church − 3,000 in Castel Gandolfo, 200 or 400 (estimates vary) as "members" of the Palatine Guard and some 1,500 in monasteries, convents and colleges. The remaining 3,700 were hidden in private homes.[14]
At the time of the liberation of Rome, O'Flaherty's and Derry's organisation was caring for 3,925 escapees and men who had succeeded in evading arrest. Of these 1,695 were British, 896 South African, 429 Russian, 425 Greek and 185 American. The remainder were from 20 different nations. This does not include Jews and sundry other men and women who were in O'Flaherty's personal care.
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