El Salvador welcomes four new martyrs, symbols of Vatican II
Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, two laymen and Franciscan missionary Cosme Spessotto were beatified in San Salvador
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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 country's violent past said many have forgotten the country's trials and tribulations, including its 'fratricidal war,' but it's 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 …