After the war Monsignor O'Flaherty received a number of awards , including Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) and the US Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm . He was also honoured by Canada and Australia . He refused to use the lifetime pension that Italy had given him . In the 1950s , the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy , in the form proposed by the now-canonised Mary Faustina Kowalska , was under a ban from the Vatican . It was O'Flaherty who , as Notary , signed the document that notified Catholics of the ban . He was the first Irishman named Notary of the Holy Office
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
Hugh O'Flaherty