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Pat wrote:

Hi, guys —

Did Stalin, Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, or Peron have a Catholic burial?

Pat

  { Did Stalin, Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, or Peron have a Catholic burial? }

John replied:

Hi Pat,

  • Stalin received a state ceremony in the Soviet Union which was officially atheistic; so he did not. He was baptized but in the Russian Orthodox church.
  • Hitler's remains were found by the Russians hence, I think it's safe to say that he did not receive any kind of ceremony.
  • Mussolini and his mistress were lynched by a mob in Milan. There bodies were dragged through the streets and then strung up upside down in a public spectacle. I highly doubt that they received any kind of Catholic service.
  • As for Pinochet and Peron, I can't tell you.

John

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