Mary Elmes (Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes) died on 9th March 2002. She was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children at various times during the Holocaust. In 2015, she became the first Irish person honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel, in recognition of her work in the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

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Quote of the day, 17 January: Père Jacques

And the Incarnate Word humbles himself by bending beneath God’s eternal desires. He becomes obedient.

Oh, world, stop and look! You are but ashes and dust, you are only a being of one day, and you dare to cry out in your excessive pride, ‘Neither God nor Master!’

See this man, Jesus of Nazareth, he is a visible man, but he is the invisible God, his human nature subsists, borne by a divine personality, he is the Son of God, he is the one who created you, and nothing that was made was made without him—and behold this all-powerful being, this God-man annihilates himself before his Father, lets himself be insulted, lets himself be mocked, lets himself be crucified, and all out of obedience. Christus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis (Christ became obedient unto death, and death on the cross, Phil 2:8)….

Ah, world, will you still say that obedience degrades and diminishes you, when Christ has sanctified this admirable virtue to such an extent? Will you be afraid to follow such a Master?

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Homily, Triduum of Perpetual Adoration
16 November 1928

Note: On 17 January 1985, the Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem recognized Père Jacques de Jésus, under his baptismal name Lucien Bunel, as Righteous Among the Nations. You can learn more about the Servant of God from the official website dedicated to his cause; you can also pray for his beatification.

As the years pass and more Holocaust survivors die, it is important to remember that the mass extermination of Jews by the Germans is not fiction. It is not a myth. Carmelites such as Titus Brandsma, Edith Stein, Georg Häfner, and Père Jacques were all victims of Hitler’s “final solution.” Learn more of the facts about the Holocaust.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: From 1934 until his arrest in January 1944, Père Jacques de Jésus, OCD was the headmaster of the Petit Collège Sainte Thérèse de l’Enfant-Jésus, the Carmelite boarding school in Avon, France. Père Jacques is seen here at his desk, speaking with one of the students. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

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🆕 The Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum will be inaugurated tomorrow, 19 July, and our very own Cláudia Ninhos is the scientific curator of the permanent exhibition. 👏👏👏

👉 Find out more about the museum and read the interview with the IHC researcher:
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/claudia-ninhos-curator-aristides-museum/

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Mary Elmes (Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes) died on 9th March 2002. She was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children at various times during the Holocaust. In 2015, she became the first Irish person honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel, in recognition of her work in the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #MaryElmes #Holocaust #RighteousAmongTheNations #OnThisDa

Mary Elmes (Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes) died on 9th March 2002. She was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children at various times during the Holocaust. In 2015, she became the first Irish person honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel, in recognition of her work in the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #MaryElmes #Holocaust #RighteousAmongTheNations #OnThisDay