Agota Kristof, Hungarian-born French novelist, died at the age of 75.

Ágota Kristóf  was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.^[2]

(October 30, 1935 -July 27, 2011)

Biography

Kristof was born in Csikvánd, Hungary on October 30, 1935 and died July 27, 2011. At the age of 21 she had to leave her country when the Hungarian anti-communist revolution was suppressed by the Soviet military. She, her husband (who used to be her history teacher at school) and their 4 month-old daughter escaped to Neuchâtel in Switzerland. After 5 years of loneliness and exile, she quit her work in a factory and left her husband. She started studying French and began to write novels in that language.

Works

Agota Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and loneliness, promiscuous, desperate, and attention-seeking sexual encounters, desire and loss, truth and fiction.
Agota Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook. This novel was translated in more than 30 languages.
In 1995 she published a new novel, Yesterday.
Agota Kristof also wrote a book called L'analphabète (in English The Illiterate) and published in 2004. This is an autobiographical text. It explores her love of reading as a young child, and we travel with her to boarding school, and over the border to Austria, and then to Switzerland. Forced to leave her country due to the failure of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for a better life in Zurich.
Her latest work is a collection of short stories entitled C'est égal that was published in 2005 in Paris. The majority of her works were published by Editions du Seuil in Paris.
She has two new short stories published at Mini Zoe collection entitled "Ou es-tu Mathias" and "Line, le temps". The names Mathias and Line are from her previous novels.
She died on 27 July 2011 in her Neuchâtel home.

Influence

The video game Mother 3 was influenced by The Notebook's major themes. Main characters Lucas and Claus are named after the book's narrators. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.^[3]
Brucio nel vento (I burn in the Wind, 2002) is a film based on the novel Hier (Yesterday), directed by Silvio Soldini.^[4] Le Continent K. (1998) and Agota Kristof, 9 ans plus tard ... (2006) are two short documentaries about Agota Kristof directed by Eric Bergkraut.^[5]

Bibliography

• 1986: Le grand cahier / The Notebook
• 1988: La preuve / The Proof
• 1991: Le troisième mensonge / The Third Lie
• 1998: L'Heure grise et autres pièces
• 1995: Hier / Yesterday
• 2004: L'analphabète
• 2005: C'est égal
• 2005: Où es-tu Mathias?
• 2007: Le Monstre et autres pièces

English translations

• The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels, Grove Press (June 23, 1997). ISBN 978-0-8021-3506-3
• Yesterday, Random House of Canada (1997). ISBN 978-0-09-926807-9

 

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Rei Harakami, Japanese musician, died from cerebrovascular disease he was , 40.

Rei Harakami  was a Kyoto-based electronic musician from Hiroshima, Japan  died from cerebrovascular disease he was , 40. He composed and mixed on two Roland SC-88Pro sound generators, at times supplemented by the Roland SK-88Pro keyboard model. He suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage on 27 July 2011.

(10 December 1970 – 27 July 2011) 

Rei released his debut album in 1998 on Sublime Records. Follow-up albums, opa*q in 1999 and red curb in 2001 showcased his skills as an artist and producer. Rei's growing reputation resulted in his becoming in demand as a producer and collaborator for artists such as UA, Great 3 and Coldcut. His recent collaboration as an artist and producer was on Akiko Yano's 2004 album, Honto no Kimochi ("True feelings"), and resulted in widespread recognition in Japan.
Rei regularly performed at some of Japan's big festivals such as Fuji Rock Festival, Rising Sun Rock Festival, and Sonar Sound Tokyo. Rei had also actively participated in several music showcases in France and Germany and in Sonar 2005 in Barcelona, Spain where he appeared with Shiro Takatani (from performance unit, "Dumb Type", as a visual collaboration).
His fourth album in 2005, lust, quickly gained popularity in a variety of music scenes. In 2006, Harakami released new and past works on the compilation album Wasuremono ("Forgotten Items") and a project CD Colors of the Dark for the Planetarium. In 2007, he composed the music for the film Tennen Kokekko ("A Gentle Breeze in the Village") based on Fusako Kuramichi's novel of the same name, centered around a group of teenagers in rural Japan. Harakami also started a project with Akiko Yano, called yanokami, which debuted in 2007.

 Discography

• Unrest (1998) Sublime Records
• Opa*q (1999)
• Red Curb (2001)
• lust (2005)
• Wasuremono (2006)
• Color of the Dark (2006)
• Tennen Kokekko, original soundtrack (2007)

 

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Polly Platt, American film producer (Say Anything...), died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis she was , 72 .

Mary Marr "Polly" Platt was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis she was , 72 ..

(January 29, 1939 – July 27, 2011)

Early life

Platt was born Mary Marr Platt in Fort Sheridan, Illinois on January 29, 1939, later using the name Polly.^[1][2] Her father John was a colonel in the army while her mother Vivian worked in advertising; she has a brother, John.^[1] She moved to Germany at the age of six as her father presided over the Dachau Trials.^[1] Platt later returned to the US and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology.^[1][2]

Career

Platt worked in summer stock theatre as a costume designer in New York and there met Peter Bogdanovich, whom she would later marry.^[1][2] She co-wrote with Bogdanovich his first movie Targets (1968), conceiving the plot outline of a "Vietnam veteran-turned-sniper" and served as the production designer on the film.^[2] She was also production designer on his film The Last Picture Show (1971), recommending Cybill Sheppard for her first film role,^[3] and despite the breakdown of their marriage, had the same role on What's Up Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973).^[1][2] Platt had suggested Bogdanovich make Larry McMurtry's novel The Last Picture Show into a film.^[2] Bogdanovich commented that: "She worked on important pictures and made major contributions. She was unique. There weren't many women doing that kind of work at that time, particularly not one as well versed as she was. She knew all the departments, on a workmanlike basis, as opposed to most producers who just know things in theory."^[1] Platt was the first female member of the Art Directors Guild.^[1] She was also production designer on A Star Is Born (1976).^[2]
She wrote the screenplays for Pretty Baby (1978), on which she was also an associate producer,^[2] as well as Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979), and A Map of the World (1999).^[4] She wrote the screenplay for the 1995 Academy Award-winning short film, Lieberman in Love, which was based on a short story by W. P. Kinsella.
Platt worked extensively with James L. Brooks throughout her career. She was the executive vice president of his production company Gracie Films from 1985 to 1995.^[1][2] Platt was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Brooks' film Terms of Endearment (1983).^[1] She also co-produced many of the films he worked on, which Gracie made, including Broadcast News (1987), The War of the Roses (1989) and Bottle Rocket (1996), as well as producing Say Anything... (1989).^[1][2] Platt gave Brooks the nine-panel Life in Hell cartoon "The Los Angeles Way of Death" by cartoonist Matt Groening. She suggested that the two meet and that Brooks produce an animated TV version of Groening's characters; the meeting spawned a series of short cartoons about the Simpson family, which aired as part of The Tracey Ullman Show and later became The Simpsons.^[1][2][5][6]
In 1994, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.^[7] Brooks said that Platt "couldn't walk into a gas station and get gas without mentoring somebody. Movies are a team sport, and she made teams function. She would assume a maternal role in terms of really being there. The film was everything, and ego just didn't exist."^[1]
In 2003, she appeared in the BBC documentary film Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Platt was working on a documentary about the filmmaker Roger Corman at the time of her death.^[1]

[edit] Personal life

Platt was married to Philip Klein until his death in a car accident in the 1960s, eight months after they married.^[2] Platt was married to director Peter Bogdanovich from 1962 to 1971.^[2] They divorced after Bogdanovich left her during the filming of The Last Picture Show for its lead actress Cybill Shepherd.^[1][2] Platt and Bogdanovich had two children: Antonia and Sashy.^[1] Platt later married prop maker Tony Wade; they remained married until his death in 1985. She was stepmother to his children Kelly and Jon.^[1][2]
The 1984 film Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long and Drew Barrymore, was reportedly loosely based on her marriage to Bogdanovich, and their divorce.^[8]
Platt died aged 72 on July 27, 2011 in New York, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[1]

 

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Bejaratana Rajasuda,, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand died she was 85

Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda Sirisobhabannavadi of Thailand  was the only daughter of the late King Vajiravudh of Thailand. She was a first cousin of current King Bhumibol Adulyadej and third cousin with King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

(  24 November 1925 – 27 July 2011)

Biography

Royal cypher of Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda

Princess Bejaratana was born on 24 November 1925 in the Royal Grand Palace, Bangkok, as the only child of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) and Princess Suvadhana. After having seen his only child for a day, the King died, on 25 November 1925. Her uncle, King Prajadhipok (Rama VII), performed the naming ceremony for the princess on 30 December.
The princess and her mother moved to Suan Hongsa Villa at Dusit Palace where she received her education from a private tutor. They then moved in with Queen Sri Savarindira (the Queen Dowager) during the war, and the princess attended Rajani School until the age of 12. The princess and her mother moved to England where she received further education as well as medication for her illness. They first stayed at Fairhill Villa in Surrey, before finally moving to Brighton.^[2]
In November 1957, mother and daughter moved back to Thailand. They bought a piece of land on Sukhumvit Road Soi 38, and build the Ruenruedi Villa Palace. Once the princess had settled into her new life in Thailand, she proceeded to undertake her Royal Duties representing the Thai Royal Family. Her special interests have been in connection to education, public health, Buddhism, the soldiers and police stationed at Thailand 's borders, and general public welfare.
Princess Bejaratana was known privately to be a very gifted individual, especially with numbers. She had the ability to calculate which day of the week for any dates presented to her, promptly and without any hesitation, as well as to remember the birthdays of all individuals who have been presented to her.
Near the end of her life due to her age and health she had lately cut down on her Royal duties, but once in a while, she still did work related to her late father.
Princess Bejaratana died on 27 July 2011 at 4.37 pm at Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok aged 85.^[3]

Titles and styles

Styles of Princess Bejaratana of Thailand
Reference style	Her Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Royal Highness
Alternative style	Ma'am

• 30 December 1925 – 10 July 1935 : Her Royal Highness The Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda.
• 10 July 1935 – 27 July 2011 : Her Royal Highness The Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda, the Princess Cousin.

 

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Eduard Rozovsky Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), died from a car accident he was , 84,.

Eduard Rozovsky  was a Russian cinematographer and cameraman, whose film credits include Amphibian Man and White Sun of the Desert died from a car accident he was , 84,..

 (1926 – July 27, 2011)

Rozovsky was an alumna of Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK),^[1] which is now called the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He began his career at the Lennauchfilm film studio, where he started as a cameraman.^[1] He then joined Lenfilm studio, where he worked as a cinematographer.^[1]
Rozovsky is credited as the cinematographer on more than eighty films, spanning several decades.^[1] His best known films include White Sun of the Desert, Amphibian Man, The Seventh Companion, Kain XVIII, Wedding and Socrates and The Master of Chukotka.^[1] He later became the film department chairman at the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television.^[1]
Rozovsky died in a car accident when he lost control of his Opel Astra while driving on the highway from the city of St. Petersburg to his country home in Priozersk.^[1] He was 84 years old.^[1]
Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir John Stuart Pepys Rawlins, KBE, FRCP, FFCM, FRAES (12 May 1922 – 27 July 2011) was a British pioneer in the field of diving medicine.

Contents  [hide]  1 Royal Navy 2 Other honors 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Royal Navy

Surgeon Vice Admiral Sir John Rawlins was educated at Wellington College, read Medicine at University College, Oxford and trained at Barts, graduating in 1945.^[1] Soon after, Rawlins began his career as a Surgeon Lt Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve officer and was assigned to the colossus class aircraft carrier HMS Triumph in 1947.^[1] After transitioning from the reserves to active duty in 1951, Rawlins was assigned to the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine (IAM).^[1][2] Rawlins was promoted to the rank of Surgeon commander while he continued his research at the IAM until 1961.^[1] Rawlins was also a member of the US Navy SEALAB project.^[3]
Rawlins served as the RN Director of Health and Research from 1975 to 1977 and later as the RN Medical Director General from 1977 to 1980 when he retired as Surgeon Vice Admiral.^[1][4]

[edit] Other honors

Rawlins was a British Sub-Aqua Club Honorary Life Member as well as President of the Historical Diving Society and the Association of RN First Class Divers.^[4]
Rawlins received the Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club in 2000.^[2][5]

 

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Richard Rutt, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester (1979–1991) died he was , 85

 Cecil Richard Rutt CBE  was an English Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop died he was , 85. Rutt spent almost 20 years of his life serving as an Anglican missionary in South Korea, a country for which he developed a deep affection. He was perhaps the last of the line of scholar-missionaries, beginning with James Scarth Gale, Homer B. Hulbert, George Heber Jones and the Anglican bishop Mark Napier Trollope who laid the foundations of what is now known as Korean studies. Some years after he retired as an Anglican bishop, Rutt was one of several Anglicans received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1994. He was ordained a Catholic priest the following year and spent the closing years of his life in Cornwall.

(27 August 1925 – 27 July 2011) 

Early life

Rutt was the son of Cecil Rutt and Mary Hare (née Turner).^[1] He was educated at Kelham Theological College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, from which he received his Master of Arts degree.

Anglican ministry

Rutt was ordained an Anglican priest in 1952.^[2] After a curacy at St George’s Cambridge^[3] he went to South Korea as a missionary in 1954. In 1965 he was appointed Archdeacon of West Seoul. In June 1966 he was appointed an assistant bishop of the Diocese of Daejeon by the Archbishop of Canterbury.^[4] In February 1968 he became Bishop of Daejeon.^[5] He was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1973.^[1]
Feeling that the time had come for Koreans to take charge of their portion of the Anglican Communion, in 1973 Rutt offered his resignation as Bishop of Daejeon, intending to continue serving as a simple parish priest in the country he had come to love so much. That proved to be impossible and in January 1974 he was appointed suffragan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of Truro with the title Bishop of St Germans.^[6] While in Cornwall he learned the Cornish language in order to celebrate weddings in Cornish. In October 1979 he was named Bishop of Leicester.^[7]
In 1982 Rutt, who was always strongly inclined to Anglo-Catholicism, voted against the unity covenant with the Methodist, Moravian and United Reformed churches.^[8] In July 1985 he was introduced into the House of Lords.^[9] He retired in 1990 and went to live in Falmouth, in the Cornwall he had come to love. He died in his 87th year at Treliske Hospital, Truro.^[10]

 Catholic ministry

In 1994 Rutt became a Catholic and in June 1995 he was ordained as a Catholic priest.^[11][12] He spent his last years in residence at St Mary Immaculate Parish in Falmouth.^[13] In 2009 he was made a Prelate of Honour, with the title of Monsignor, by Pope Benedict XVI.^[14] He was an honorary canon of Plymouth Cathedral.^[14]

Korean studies and writings

While in Korea, from 1954 to 1974, Rutt studied in great depth the language, culture and history of Korea, as well as Classical Chinese. He was an active member of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, serving on the council, overseeing its publications and serving as its president in 1974. He published six scholarly papers in the RASKB's journal, Transactions,^[15] most of which reveal his deep knowledge of the Classical Chinese used in pre-modern Korea.^[16] His deep affection for the traditional culture of Korea, which had in fact almost ceased to exist by the time he arrived, was particularly expressed in his very popular volume, Korean Works and Days: Notes from the Diary of a Country Priest. One of his notable works of scholarship, apart from his translations, was his annotated edition (RASKB, 1972 / 1983) of the History of the Korean People by James Scarth Gale (first published in 1927) which includes a researched biography of the author. Like Gale, Rutt was fascinated by Classical Chinese and, after his retirement, he published a new translation of a challenging ancient Chinese classic, The Book of Changes, in 1996. He later assisted the historical research of the Anglican priest Roger Tennant^[17] as well as co-authoring the encyclopedia Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary with Keith Pratt. He was a member of both the Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) founded by William E. Skillend of SOAS and the British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS). In particular, Rutt was fascinated by traditional and formal sijo and older forms of Korean poetry in general.^[18][19] He owned a large collection of books related to Korea, including some rare Korean volumes, which he donated to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.^[20]

Knitting

Rutt developed a passionate interest in knitting and authored a history of the craft in A History of Hand Knitting (Batsford, 1987). His collection of books about knitting is now housed at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).^[21] Rutt was involved with the Knitting & Crochet Guild since its inception in 1978, and was its president at the time of his death.^[22]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Rutt, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 70+ publications in three languages and 3,000+ library holdings^[23]

es.

• 2002 — Martyrs of Korea
• 1999 — Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary(with Keith L. Pratt)
• 1996 — The Book of Changes (Zhouyi): A Bronze Age Document
• 1987 — A History of Hand Knitting
• 1980 — A Nine Cloud Dream by Man-jung Kim
• 1974 — Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels
• 1972 — History of the Korean People (James Scarth Gale)
• 1971 — The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo
• 1964 — Korean Works and Days: Notes from the Diary of a Country Priest
• 1958 — An Introduction to the Sijo, a Form of Short Korean Poem
• 1956 — The Church Serves Korea

Personal life

Rutt married Joan Ford (3 April 1919 - 17 September 2007) in Hong Kong in May 1969.^[24] He was a bard of the Cornish Gorseth. His Korean name was Tae-yŏng No.

 

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Pietro Sambi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (since 2005), died from respiratory failure he was , 73

Pietro Sambi  was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served in the Vatican's Secretariat of State. At the time of his death, he was the Titular Archbishop of Bellicastrum and the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States died from respiratory failure he was , 73.

(27 June 1938 – 27 July 2011)

Biography

Sambi was born in Sogliano al Rubicone (Forlì-Cesena), Italy on 27 June 1938^[1] and spoke Italian, English, French and Spanish.^[2]

[edit] Ecclesiastical career

He was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro on 14 March 1964,^[1] and began work in the diplomatic service of the Secretariat of State in 1969, serving at the nunciatures in Cameroon.^[2] He was transferred to the Apostolic Nunciature in Jerusalem on 19 July 1971, and subsequently to the Apostolic Nunciatures in Cuba in 1974, Algeria in 1978, Nicaragua in 1979, Belgium in 1981, and then India in May 1984 with the rank of counselor.^[2]
On 10 October 1985, Sambi was named the pro-nuncio to Burundi by Pope John Paul II, and was ordained as a bishop as the titular archbishop of Bellicastrum.^[1][2] In 1991 he was made the pro-nuncio to Indonesia, and in 1998 was named nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.^[1][2] Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Sambi as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States on December 17, 2005. He was installed in early 2006.^[1][2]
During Pope Benedict's April 2008 visit to the U.S., Archbishop Sambi accompanied the Pope and hosted him at the Apostolic Nunciature, where the Pope held a historic private meeting with five victims of clergy sexual abuse. Archbishop Sambi recognized the global reach of the U.S. and American culture, and the immense contribution to the country and the world of the American Catholic church- particularly through its charitable work and its healthcare and educational institutions. He toured the damage left by Hurricane Katrina during the summer of 2006, shortly after his appointment. In 2007, he spoke at a convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, praising teachers in Catholic schools. During the 10th anniversary observance in 2009 of the Joint Declaration on Justification, the Archbishop told the Washington audience that charitable love and mutual respect were paramount, just as it was during the founding of the Church and in other earlier times, for any hope of progress in ecumenical relations and to remain faithful to Christ's expectations of his disciples regarding their treatment of one another (the Archbishop himself was widely respected in the American church for these qualities). Sambi was the recipient of many honors, including an honorary doctorate received on May 8, 2011 from Regis University in Denver, Colorado as well as the 2009 Living Stones Solidarity Award of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (as Nuncio there before coming to America, Archbishop Sambi had tried to improve access to holy sites, Christian-Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the Israeli-Palestinian talks, and the ability of Arab Israeli Catholic priests to serve with more ease in Israel). In September 2010, he presided at a Mass to mark the 13th anniversary of the death of Blessed Mother Teresa, which coincided with a U.S. postal commemmoration of her.

Health problems and death

According to a press release advisory jointly issued by the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on 22 July 2011, Sambi underwent lung surgery and developed complications that required the temporary use of assisted ventilation. The Apostolic Nunciature and Sambi's family asked that bishops, priests, religious, and the lay faithful offer sacrifices and prayers for the health of the Apostolic Nuncio.^[3]
On 27 July 2011, it was announced that Archbishop Sambi, 73, had died, apparently from complications relating to the lung surgery. Many American Bishops, including New York City's Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan, president of the American bishops' conference, released statements expressing sorrow at his death. The body, after lying in state at the Apostolic Nunciature for two days, arrived at the airport in Rimini, Italy the morning of Sunday, July 31, 2011, and was taken to the parish church in his hometown, Sogliano al Rubicone, Italy. A prayer service was held that night in the Church of St. Lawrence, and another is planned for the evening of Monday, August 1. The Church will be open for mourners to pay their respects until the afternoon of the following day, Tuesday, August 2, when the casket will be taken from the Church to Matteotti Square in the town of about 3,200 residents. Monsignor Luigi Ricci, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rimini and pastor of St. Lawrence, said the Funeral Mass there will begin at 4:00 P.M. After the Funeral Mass there, parishioners will walk in procession, carrying the casket to the town's cemetery. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop Francesco Lambiasi of Rimini will preside at that Funeral Mass. Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the Vatican's Substitute for General Affairs at the Secretariat of State, and Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello, the Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, will be among the concelebrants. A Memorial Mass for the Nuncio, to coincide with the Fall meeting of the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), was held on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord. Archbishop Dolan of New York, President of the USCCB, was the principal celebrant, with many of the country's Bishops, including Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., concelebrating, along with the current charge d'affaires at the Nunciature, Monsignor Jean-Francois Lantheaume. Vatican officials later confirmed reports that had Archbishop Sambi lived and been able to continue to serve, he would have been transferred to a senior post in the Roman Curia that eventually would have likely raised him to the cardinalate.^[4]

 

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