Jean-Pierre Aloïsi

Jean-Pierre Aloïsi (also: Pierre Aloysi ) (born September 15, 1913 in Bastia ; † May 10, 1971 in Aups ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, resistance fighter and persecuted by National Socialism .

Life

Priest and soldier

Jean-Pierre André Marie Joseph Aloïsi, son of a sergeant, grew up in Bastia and attended the minor seminary in Ajaccio . Due to an overreaction by the headmaster, he was expelled from school because of a triviality, but after the family moved from Corsica to Toulon, on the recommendation of the Bishop of Ajaccio, he was able to attend the minor seminary in Hyères from 1929 , and then the seminary of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in Solliès-Ville . There he was ordained a priest on May 1, 1939. During his military service he was seriously wounded in May 1940 and spent the period from July 1940 to November 1941 in the sanatorium in Passy , not far from Mont Blanc .

Resistant, concentration camp prisoner and pastor

On October 1, 1942, he became a chaplain in Bargemon . From May 1943 he joined a Resistance group there, which was led by his childhood friend Ludovic Altieri (1912-1996). This made him one of the only ten priests in the diocese who turned away from the Pétain government at an early stage . His task was to collect weapons dropped on parachutes at night, hide them in the church and rectory and later distribute them to combat groups. On April 24, 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo after mass . Having learned of his denunciation, he expected to be arrested in uniform. After several months of imprisonment in Draguignan , Aloïsi was brought to Marseille on August 10, 1944 and from there deported via Compiègne to Neuengamme concentration camp , where he had the matriculation number 136788. From Neuengamme he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was liberated alive on April 29, 1945 by the American army with a body weight of only 35 kg. Aloïsi returned to the parish of Bargemon, was pastor in Carnoules from 1951 to 1960 and pastor in Aups from 1960 until his death (at the age of 57) .

Honors

Aloïsi was a knight from 1947, an officer from 1951 and commander of the Legion of Honor from 1960 . Rue Jean Pierre Aloisi in Aups is named after him.

literature

• Louis Porte: Reprise et fragments de l'histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Lau, Toulon 2019, pp. 181-202. ("Pierre Aloysi")

Web links

• Mention of Jean-Pierre Aloïsi in the Base Léonore of the French National Archives
• Mention of Jean-Pierre Aloïsi in the Honoré-Camos Museum in Bargemon