Mgr O’Flaherty’s duel with the Gestapo leader in Rome is legendary. What happened next was even more amazing

The priest who converted his enemy

By STEPHEN WALKER

Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: 

and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you 

(Matthew 5:44)

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Part of this story was dramatised in the 1983 film The Scarlet and the Black. But the wartime duel is only one dimension of this extraordinary narrative. A rivalry that was forged in wartime which became a friendship created in peacetime. It remains one of the most fascinating stories to emerge from the Second World War.


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