Sr. Margherita Marchione
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Sr. Margherita Marchione Sister Margherita Marchione is Professor Emerita of Italian Language and Literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and an internationally known author of more than fifty books on Clemente Rebora, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Philip Mazzei, Peter and Sally Sammartino, Pope Pius XII and others. She participates in radio and television programs in Europe and in the United States. Besides honorary citizenship in Poggio a Caiano (Prato) and Pontecagnano (Salerno), among her numerous honors, she is a Knight of the Star of Solidarity of the Republic of Italy and a member of the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. Sister Margherita received the papal award, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross, for her work in promoting the truth about Pope Pius XII. Among the first to answer the modern critics of Pius XII, Sister Margherita declares her unambiguous support for Pius XII at the outset of all her books. In her judgment, not only has the wartime Pontiff been defamed, but there is more than enough evidence to prove that he was a genuine saint. Fulbright Scholar Margherita Marchione received her M.A and Ph.D. from Columbia University as well as several honorary degrees. She is included in the Congressional Record as well as in such biographical references as Dictionary of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors, World Who’s Who of Women, Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women, and Lives of Contemporary American Nuns. A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini, Sister Margherita is Treasurer at Villa Walsh in Morristown, New Jersey, where she resides. She is among the best-known—and passionate—supporters of Pope Pius XII. Sister Margherita has published several books in defense of Pius XII: Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy (1997), Pius XII: Architect for Peace (2000), Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pius XII (2002), and Crusade of Charity: Pius XII and POWs (1939-1945) (2006), all published by Paulist Press (New York/Mahwah, NJ), as well as Shepherd of Souls: A Pictorial Life of Pius XII (2002) containing over 260 photographs and sketches of the wartime Pontiff. The stated purpose of these books is to provide “definitive, conclusive and inspirational proof of Pius XII’s efforts to protect the victims of Nazism.” In The Fighting Nun: My Story, Chapter Eleven, “Defending Pius XII” (Cornwall Press, London/ Cranbury, NJ, 2000), Sister Margherita refutes John Cornwell and defends the honor of the Pontiff. Her books collect first-hand eyewitness accounts of Pius XII’s contemporaries, English translations of primary material (from diplomatic and Vatican sources) available nowhere else, and reveal the utter hatred the Nazis had for Pius XII because of his defense of persecuted Jews and uncompromising stand on behalf of Christian principles. These books have drawn considerable attention from historians and religious leaders of many faiths. |
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