The Roman Catholic Church is beatifying two priests and two lay people who were victims of right-wing death squads during El Salvador’s civil war.
A gardener puts away his tools as he wraps up for the day backdropped by a mural featuring the late Archbishop Oscar Romero and Rev. Rutilio Grande in the Plaza de Los Martires or Martyrs Square, in El Paisnal, El Salvador, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Grande, a Jesuit priest who inspired St. Oscar Romero and was himself a victim of El Salvador’s right-wing death squads, will be beatified Saturday along with two Salvadorans who were killed with him.
Franciscan priest Cosme Spessotto, an Italian who arrived in El Salvador in 1950, was shot dead while praying at the altar of his parish by Salvadoran soldiers on June 14, 1980. He was known for his work in one of the poorest parts of El Salvador and his unwillingness to leave even in the face of death threats.
“I was a devotee of Rutilio even before coming to know Romero better,” Francis told Central American priests during his visit to Panama in 2019. “When I was in Argentina, his life influenced me, his death touched me.” The war, which ended with the signing of peace accords in 1992, left more than 75,000 dead and some 12,000 missing.
Lemus, the 16-year-old riding with the men, was the oldest of eight siblings and was in the 7th grade when he was killed.
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