DURING THE weekend when the Church’s attention was fixed on the canonisation of two Popes, most people missed the raising to the altars of a courageous Italian friar. On 26 April – the day before John Paul II and John XXIII were canonised – the ­beatification of Dominican Fr Giuseppe Girotti took place in the cathedral in Alba, north-west Italy.   In 1943, Girotti created a network of support for Jews after the birth of the Italian Social Republic – a puppet state for Nazi Germany. He was later arrested, imprisoned and eventually sent to Dachau concentration camp, Germany. There he became ill and died in the infirmary on Easter Sunday, 1 April 1945, at the age of 40. His death is believed to have been hastened by lethal injection. Last year, Pope Fran