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Jean-Marie Lustiger
Christian Century, Sept 4, 2007
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jewish convert whose mother died in the Auschwitz concentration camp and who became the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, died August 6 at the age of 80. Hospitalized since April, Lustiger suffered from cancer, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro. Born to Polish Jews in Paris in 1926, Lustiger converted to Catholicism in 1940 while living with a Catholic family in the city of Orleans, where his parents had sent him after the German invasion of France.
After studying literature at the Sorbonne, Lustiger entered the seminary and became a priest in 1954. For 15 years he was dedicated to the spiritual needs of university students, first at the Sorbonne and then as head of a training school for university chaplains. As archbishop, Lustiger was a prominent advocate for Christian-Jewish relations, accompanying John Paul on a visit to Jerusalem in 2000 and helping settle a dispute over a convent of Carmelite nuns at Auschwitz. Jewish leaders protested the presence of the convent there until, at the cardinal's suggestion, John Paul ordered it moved in 1993.
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