A priest in France was stabbed multiple times but was saved by the intervention of a 72-year-old nun who has been praised for her “extraordinary courage” after stopped the attacker going further at a church in Nice, in the southeast of the country.
Sister Marie-Claudeintervened after a 31-year-old man entered the Saint-Pierre d’Arene church before Mass Sunday and repeatedly stabbed Father Krzysztof Rudziński. It is currently unclear what the motive was, if any.
She received a wound to the forearm and was taken to a hospital along with the 57-year-old priest.
Father Rudziński, originally from Suchowola, northeastern Poland, is believed to have been stabbed up to 20 times, mainly in the chest.
The Diocese of Nice said in a statement that neither the sister nor the priest suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident, which police said was not related to terrorism.
