In 1943, Bishop Nicolini gave permission for a whole Jewish refugee family to take up hiding in the Poor Clare Colettine monastery in Assisi. The family lived in a room at one end of a corridor, and little Brigitte, who had been born in the monastery on September 8^th, had full run of the cloister halls, often visiting the nuns in their workrooms and Chapter Room. The family remained with the nuns until the end of the war.