2 euro - Abbé Pierre - France - 2012 - UNC

2 euro coin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Abbot Pierre. Henri Antoine Groués, known as Abbé Pierre, was born on 5 August 1912 in Lyon. At 16, during a trip to Italy, stop in Assisi. The meeting with St. Francis, especially at the Convento Le Carceri, makes him take the decision to become a Capuchin. At the age of 19 he entered the Capuchin convent of Lyon. In 1942 an intense rescue action began for the victims of Nazi tyranny. It is on this occasion that Abbé Groués becomes Abbé Pierre. Pierre saves several people (Jews, Poles) sought by the Gestapo. It falsifies passports, becomes a mountain guide and transports people in danger through the Alps and the Pyrenees.