Sister Agnes-Marie Valois died on Thursday in a monastery, officials in the northern town of Dieppe said. Valois saved several lives by persuading German officials to tend to some of the wounded and also stole German rations to feed the injured. The raid, codenamed Operation Jubilee, was the first time the Canadian army had engaged in the European theatre of the war. Her father was an industrialist in the French city of Rouen. Born in 1914, Agnes Valois trained as a nurse with the Red Cross before joining the Augustine order in 1936.

Source: The Nation Bangkok April 21, 2018 11:26 UTC