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The delivery of the title of Righteous will take place in his Terlizzi
Don Pietro Pappagallo (1888-1944), the priest of the diocese of Rome Origin pugliesi tru cidato in 1944 in the mbadacre of the Ardeatine Pit in Rome, was declared just among the nations, the recognition attributed to personalities who stand out by helping the Jewish people during the Holocaust. The Jewish community of Rome announces. The priest then enters the list of over 400 Italians honored with the title of Righteous among the nations whose names were placed on the wall of Yad Vashem, the memorial mausoleum of Jerusalem.
Among the Italians who received the title there is also Giorgio Perlasca, Gino Bartali and recently (in 2017) the Archbishop of Genoa, Jesuit Cardinal Pietro Boetto. Don Pietro Pappagallo was imprisoned in the infamous place of detention of Via Tbado and was the only priest killed during the mbadacre of the Ardeatine Pit on March 24, 1944. Don Pietro's parents will receive a medal and a parchment of the State of Israel, through the intermediary of Ambbadador Ofer Sachs in Italy, at a ceremony that will probably take place in autumn in the priest's hometown, Terlizzi (Bari). A character who has become legendary and the legacy of collective memory – as recalled by L'Osservatore Romano in a great article by Silvia Guidi (which documents the rescues of so many Jews, but also of Protestants and Catholics by Don Pietro) – for being told with the unmistakable face of the actor Aldo Fabrizi in Roberto Rossellini's film Roma città aperta (1945) John Paul II on the occasion of the 2000 Jubilee included Don Pietro Pappagallo among the martyrs of the twentieth century Church.
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