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Eighty years ago the Irish Brigade became the first group of Allied soldiers to meet with Pope Pius XII following the liberation of Rome from the Nazis. Vatican News spoke to Major General Colin Weir.80 years ago on the 12th June 1944, a group of soldiers from the British Army’s 38th Brigade met with Pope Pius XII.
Today, eighty years to the hour after that historic encounter between Pope Pius XII and the 38th Brigade, a delegation from the unit met with Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square. Rome had been liberated on the 4th June. By the 12th, the of day the meeting with the Pope - arranged by Irish priests in the Vatican - the unit was already at the new frontline to the north of the city.
The visit to Rome, he said, was in recognition of the fact that, while some of the Irish Regiment’s troops had been preparing for D-Day eighty years ago, others had been fighting their way through North Africa, Sicily, and southern Italy, aiming at the liberation of Rome and the entire Italian Peninsula.
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