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Jews, Catholics bid farewell to French cardinal
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Jews and Catholics joined in homage, intoning a sacred Jewish prayer beneath the sculpted saints of Notre Dame Cathedral at the funeral of the Jewish-born Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger.
Lustiger, whose mother was killed at the Auschwitz death camp and who later worked to reconcile Catholics and Jews, asked that his funeral include both faiths. One of modern France's most influential church figures, Lustiger died last Sunday at the age of 80 in a Paris hospice.
Before his death, Lustiger asked that a commemorative plaque be placed inside Notre Dame reading: "I was born Jewish. I received my paternal grandfather's name, Aron, I became Christian by faith and baptism, and I remained Jewish like the Apostles did."
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Hundreds of people, including prominent Jewish leaders of France, Holocaust survivors and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, gathered to see Lustiger's simple wooden coffin carried through crowds and placed on the stone square in front of the 12th century Notre Dame on Friday.
Lustiger's great-grand-nephew Jonas read a psalm in Hebrew and French, and placed a bowl of earth gathered from Jewish and Christian sites in the Holy Land on the coffin.
"I would have liked to be able
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Cardinal Lustiger: 10 years after death, Jewish convert still looms over Church in France
When Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger died on August 5, 2007, his funeral Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral began with the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.
It was an unconventional liturgy for a man whose tenure as Archbishop of Paris spanned almost a quarter-century, but it was fitting for a man whose life was marked by defying traditional norms. On the tenth anniversary of his death, it’s impossible to understand the French Catholic Church without reckoning with the indelible mark he left on it.
Lustiger was born in Paris in 1926 to Polish-Jewish parents who owned a clothing shop on the Left Bank, where the family lived until moving to Orléans in 1939 to flee Nazi persecution. While Lustiger, along with his sister and father survived Nazi occupation, his mother was arrested and taken to Auschwitz where she was murdered in 1942.
These consequential teenage years not only exposed Lustiger to the evils of anti-Semitism, but also inadvertently introduced him to Christianity when he discovered a Bible in the home of his piano teacher.
At age 14, while visiting the cathedral in Orléans on Holy Thursday, he was moved by the rich symbolism of the liturgy he witnessed. He returned