Père (Father) Jacques de Jésus, O.C.D., (1900 – 2 June 1945) was a French Roman Catholic priest and Discalced Carmelite friar. While serving as headmaster of a boarding school run by his Order, he took in several Jewish refugees to protect them from the Nazi government of occupation, for which he was arrested and imprisoned in various Nazi concentration camps.
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1900 Normandy, France
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1945 (aged 44)
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