Film cardinal lustiger biography

French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃maʁilystiʒe]^ⓘ; 17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church.

He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. His life is depicted in the 2013 film Le métis de Dieu (The Jewish Cardinal).

Film cardinal lustiger biography

Life and work

Early years

Lustiger was born Aron Lustiger in Paris to a Jewish family. His parents, Charles and Gisèle Lustiger, were Ashkenazi Jews from Będzin, Poland, who had left Poland around World War I.^[1] Lustiger's father ran a hosiery shop.

Aron Lustiger studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, where he first encountered anti-Semitism.^[2][3] Visiting Germany in 1937, he was hosted by an anti-NaziProtestant family whose children had been required to join the Hitler Youth.^[1][4]

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