Four martyrs are beatified at a Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Jan. 22, 2022. / Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images.Vatican City, Jan 25, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Pope Francis has commended the "heroic example" of four martyrs killed in the 1970s and 1980s who were recently beatified in El Salvador.Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, and two lay companions were declared blessed at a beatification Mass in San Salvador on Jan. 22."They stood by the poor, bearing witness to the Gospel, truth, and justice even to the point of shedding their blood," Pope Francis said in his Angelus address the following day."May their heroic example inspire in everyone the desire to be courageous workers of fraternity and peace."Blessed Cosme Spessotto was shot by a machine gun while kneeling in a pew near the tabernacle on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on June 14, 1980.The Franciscan priest, who had come to El Salvador as a mi
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The Roman Catholic Church beatified two priests and two lay people Saturday, all victims of right-wing death squads during El Salvador’s civil war. The Rev. Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest killed alongside friends Manuel Solorzano and teenager Nelson Lemus on March 12, 1977, was known for his ministry to the poor and was an inspiration…
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.