John Edvalson might have met Pope Benedict XVI in May 1945.Imagine reading a reunion notice when you're 87 years old, and it says that your company seems to have been the one that took a future pope prisoner and marched him down the road to be locked up.
Of course, Joseph Ratzinger wasn't yet the pope — he was only 18 when he was one of 25,000 German prisoners that Edvalson helped escort from Traunstein, Germany, to a prisoner-of-war camp at Bad Aibling...
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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I read Trollope’s second Palliser novel, Phineas Finn, about an Irish
Member of Parliament and his adventures in London, both romantic and
political, back ...
3 weeks ago
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