Slovenia + Madagascar = Akamasoa!

"Communist partisans were executing Slovenians and burying them in a mass grave in 1945 at Teharje, Slovenia ..."

Today Slovenia lives!

So, too, did Father Pedro Opeka's father.

As Inside The Vatican magazine tells us:

"Don Pedro was almost not born..."


From the January 2011 edition.


"Our #2 Person of the Year is Fr. Pedro Opeka, 62, who has made it possible for 20,000 people living in huts on garbage heaps in Madagascar to have clean homes, clean schools, and clean shops where they can work and earn a living.

"In short, Don Pedro is a man who has taken the wretched of the earth and given them a place to start from, a home.

"Don Pedro was almost not born.

"His father, a Slovenian, was almost shot a few years before Don Pedro's birth in 1948.

"Communist partisans were executing Slovenians and burying them in a mass grave in 1945 at Teharje, Slovenia, when Don Pedro's father seemingly miraculously escaped and survived countless dangers before reaching refugee camps in Italy, then started a new life in Argentina.

"There he married, and Don Pedro was born in Argentina, in San Martín, a suburb of Buenos Aires, the capital.

"As a teenager, Pedro learned bricklaying from his father.

"This was providential: he would one day teach this skill to the poor of Madagascar..."

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