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La Iglesia Embellecerá a Cuatro Hombres, Asesinados por “Odio a la Fe” Durante la Guerra Civil de El Salvador

Este 22 de enero de 2022 se llevará a cabo la ceremonia de beatificación del Padre Rutilio Grande y sus compañeros Nelson Rutilio Lemus y Manuel Solórzano y tambien el Padre Cosme Spessotto. Los cuatro hombres fueron asesinados por elementos de las fuerzas armadas, al comienzo de la guerra civil.

El Padre Grande fue un sacerdote jesuita salvadoreño que abogaba por la justicia y defendía los derechos humanos, además de una figura destacada en formación prístina en El Salvador.


El Padre Spessotto, fue un sacerdote franciscano italiano que en el lapso de 26 años en San Juan Nonualco, La Paz, construyó una iglesia y fundó una escuela parroquial, que ha sido atendido por más de mil niños.

La muerte del Padre Grande conmovió profundamente al Oscar Romero, el entonces arzobispo de San Salvador y lo llevó a comenzar hablar con más fuerza sobre la represión y la violencia que el pueblo salvadoreño estaba sufriendo.


El evento especial tendrá lugar en Gran San Salvador.
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The church will Beatify Four Men, Murdered for “Hatred of the Faith” During El Salvador’s Civil War

This January 22, 2022, the beatification ceremony of Father Rutilio Grande and his companions Nelson Rutilio Lemus and Manuel Solórzano and also Father Cosme Spessotto will take place. The four men were assassinated by elements of the armed forces, at the beginning of the civil war.

Father Grande was a Salvadoran Jesuit priest who advocated for justice and defended human rights, as well as a leading figure in pristine formation in El Salvador.

The death of Padre Grande deeply moved Oscar Romero, the then Archbishop of San Salvador and led him to begin speaking more strongly about the repression and violence that the Salvadoran people were suffering.

The special event will take place in Gran San Salvador.
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Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero has been Raised to Sainthood

October 14th, 2018
A crowd of 70,000 faithful huddled in St. Peters Square witnessed as Pope Francis elevated Oscar Arnulfo Romero to Sainthood. Among them were five thousand Salvadorans who made the pilgrimage to Vatican City to venerate their prophet, El Salvador’s cherished archbishop who was martyred (español) by the Salvadoran army on March 24, 1980.

The Pope, wearing the blood-stained rope belt that Romero wore when he was shot, also bestowed sainthood to Pope Paul VI, Nazaria Ignacia of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Francesco Spinelli, Vincenzo Romano and Mary Caterina Kasper and Nunzio.

Across El Salvador, and in many latin American countries, tens of thousands held vigils and over the night watched the Mass live on giant TV screens in public squares.

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Romero, after witnessing the constant repression by the Salvadoran government towards its own people, preached nonviolence and denounced injustices, amid an escalating civil war that would go on to displace over 1,000,000 Salvadorans and cost the lives of an estimated 80,000 people.

Cecilia Flores de Rivas is recognized by the highest authorities of the Catholic Church as the living miracle that allows the canonization of Archbishop Romero.


Click here for the full coverage including transcripts.

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Happy 101st Birthday Oscar Romero!

“We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.”
Oscar Romero

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Today we join our Salvadoran family in the commemoration of Oscar Arnulfo Romero’s 101st birthday. May the messages of peace and love that he imparted continue to live on in the hearts and minds of all who love justice.