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(RNS) — As the four martyrs are one step closer to sainthood, Salvadorans in the United States hope the designation could inspire the Catholic Church to center the poor and marginalized.

Terrence M. Sawyer, J.D., president, released this statement related to the beatification of Rev. Rutilio Grande, S.J.

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 martyrs beatified -- including a teenage boy, priests and a sacristan -- were part of more than 75,000 civilians killed during the countrys 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...

Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, two laymen and Franciscan missionary Cosme Spessotto were beatified in San Salvador

Father Rutilio Grande, SJ (1928-1977), Father Cosma Spessotto, OFM (1923-1980), and two laymen (Manuel Solórzano and Nelson Rutilio Lemus) were beatified as martyrs in El Salvador on January 22.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- A Salvadoran cardinal with a front-row seat to the countrys violent past said many have forgotten the countrys trials and tribulations, including its fratricidal war, but its necessary to remember the past if El Salvador is ever to attain peace.

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.

San Salvador, Jan 22 (EFE).- Priests Rutilio Grande and Cosme Spessotto, and lay people Nelson Lemus and Manuel Solórzano, became new martyrs of the Catholic Church of El Salvador on Saturday when they were beatified more than 40 years after their deaths during the civil war. The ritual was carried out in a festive atmosphere …