Pino Puglisi
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Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on his 56th birthday.
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Carlo Alberto dalla ChiesaAlso won Gold Medal for Civil Valor
Simone MoroAlso won Gold Medal for Civil Valor
Paolo BorsellinoAlso won Gold Medal for Civil Valor
Rocco ChinniciAlso won Gold Medal for Civil Valor
Giovanni FalconeAlso won Gold Medal for Civil Valor
Giorgio AmbrosoliAlso won Gold Medal for Civil ValorAbout this person
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on his 56th birthday. His life story has been retold in a book, Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece tremare la mafia con un sorriso (2013), and portrayed in a film, Come into the Light in 2005. He was the first Mafia victim to be beatified by the Catholic Church.
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