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Sister Dr. Margherita Marchione, PhD (born February 19, 1922, Little Ferry, New Jersey〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.shelfari.com/authors/a477498/Margherita-Marchione )〕) is a Roman Catholic American nun, writer, teacher and apologeticist, who dedicated herself in her later years to the defense of Pope Pius XII. A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini for most of her life, she had access to the sisters of her order in Italy, who reportedly sheltered some Jews during the Second World War. ==Life== Marchione was born February 19, 1922 in Little Ferry, New Jersey, one of eight children of Crescenzo and Felicia Marchione, immigrants from Campania, Italy. She attended St. Mary's School in nearby Hackensack, and in 1935 she joined the Religious Teachers Filippini.〔(Marchione, Margherita. ''The Fighting Nun: My Story'', Cornwall Books, Cranbury, New Jersey, (2000) )〕 Marchione received her B.A. from Georgian Court College, and her M.A. and PhD from Columbia University, and eventually became a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, after earning a doctorate on philosophy at Columbia. She occupied the post of emeritus professor of Italian language and literature at Fairleigh Dickinson. ==On Philip Mazzei== Marchione's interest in Philip Mazzei began in 1974 bicentennial. Philip Mazzei, was an 18th-century Florentine who moved to Virginia, fought in the American Revolution, and became a lifelong personal friend of Thomas Jefferson. The author of seven volumes on Mazzei, Marchione donated approximately 2,500 printed and published artifacts, works of art and decorative objects of Philip Mazzei to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Foundation librarian Jack Robertson stated, "The collection compiled by Sister Margherita includes not only facsimiles of all of Mazzei’s correspondence, but also relatively obscure publications on the role of Italians in American history."〔("Mazzei documents illuminate Jefferson", ''Daily Progress'', Charlottesville, Virginia, May 13, 2013 )〕 She launched an ultimately successful campaign to get the United States Postal Service (USPS) to designate a stamp to commemorate Mazzei in the form of a 40 cent airmail stamp in 1980 to commemorate Mazzei's 250th birthday.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margherita Marchione」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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