The martyrs beatified including a teenage boy, priests and a sacristan were part of more than 75,000 civilians killed during the country s civil war in the 1970s and 80s that ended with peace accords in 1992.
Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, two laymen and Franciscan missionary Father Cosme Spessotto were beatified on Saturday in San Salvador. A close friend of St Oscar Romero, Father Rutilio Grande, SJ, was killed by a paramilitary death squad in 1977 for speaking out for social justice. Fathe.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) Unlike the spotless image of many holy men and women, a depiction of one of the new martyrs of the Catholic Church looks anything but polished.