Giuseppe Girotti, OP (19 July 1905 – 1 April 1945) was an Italian Dominican priest who was a biblical scholar and a professor of theology.

[1][2][3] Girotti was beatified on 26 April 2014 in Alba Cathedral after Pope Francis confirmed he had died as a martyr of the faith.

On 26 September 1922, he was dispatched to Santa Maria della Quercia convent in Viterbo to continue his studies but spent a brief period of time in Fiesole.

His time in Jerusalem allowed him to strengthen interfaith ties with Judaism and Jewish culture which served invaluable for him and his mission.

He helped Emma and her mother find refuge for several months in a Turin convent, and provided false identification papers to her father.

[2] Having been caught in the act of helping a wounded Jewish partisan to the home of Professor Joseph Diena, Girotti was arrested on 29 August 1944.

This individual reported Girotti then to the authorities and he was arrested and taken first to the Le Nuove prison in Turin where an attempt by his Dominican superior to secure his release did not succeed.

The formal introduction to the Roman phase of the cause came under Pope John Paul II on 13 January 1989 and Giuseppe Girotti was given the title Servant of God.

On the pope's behalf Cardinal Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Turin, presided over the beatification at a solemn Mass in Alba Cathedral on 26 April 2014.