Yesterday evening's Telegraph—
Didi Nearne was inspired by her strong Catholic faith
to believe that she would be well received, and the priest,
appalled at the state of the women, hid them in the bell tower.
In 1944 Nearne, an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who had
parachuted into France, was captured, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo,
sent to a concentration camp, and later escaped.
She died at 89 on September 2, 2010. See this journal on that date.
See also Geheimnis des Glockenturms.