Jean Marie Lustiger


Aaron JeanMarie Lustiger September 1926 August 2007 was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was created cardinal in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. His life is depicted in the 2013 film Le mtis de Dieu .

Lustiger was born Aaron Lustiger in Paris to a Jewish family. His parents, Charles and Gisle Lustiger, were Ashkenazi Jews from Bdzin, Poland, who had left Poland around World War I. Lustigers father ran a hosiery shop. Aaron Lustiger studied at the Lyce Montaigne in Paris, where he first encountered antiSemitism. Visiting Germany in 1937, he was hosted by an antiNazi Protestant family whose children had been required to join the Hitler Youth.

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