D-Day June 6, French Priest Gives Thanks for US Soldiers

Denver Catholic Register: Even 70 years after that heroic day June 6, 1944, when American troops liberated France from invading Nazis, the French at home and abroad remember the freedom it afforded them.

It’s a time in history Father Franck “Nathanael” Pujos of St. Catherine of Siena Church will always remember.

As a young boy, Father Nathanael Pujos recalled an emotional visit with his grandmother to an American cemetery in Normandy after World War II. He saw the fallen soldiers as heroes and imitated their fight against the Nazis using an American flag draped over his shoulders.“As a Frenchman and as a priest, I’m really aware of what we owe this young generation of soldiers who died for us French to be free,” said Father Pujos, 44, who is a parochial vicar and chaplain at St. Catherine School.

Without his freedom, he may not have become a priest, he said. Full article is here.