Name | Aloysius Stepinac |
Date of Birth | May 8, 1898 |
Place of Birth | Croatia |
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Aloysius Stepinac was born on May 8, 1898 in Croatia. He died on Feb 10, 1960 (age 61). Cardinal from Croatia who served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his retirement in 1960.
During World War I, he was a soldier stationed on the Italian front. After World War II, the authorities in Yugoslavia accused him on many accusations of war crimes and collaboration with the enemy. However, these allegations were seen as being bogus, and the trial itself was a classic communist “show trial.” There were a total of seven of his brothers and sisters.