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El Salvador honors slain Jesuits
by Dennis Coday on Nov. 04, 2009
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The Associated Press is reporting that El Salvador's president announced Tuesday that the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.
President Mauricio Funes says the National Order of Jose Matias Delgado awards are a "public act of atonement" for mistakes by past governments.
They will be presented on Nov. 16 to mark the date 20 years ago when soldiers killed Spanish-born university rector Ignacio Ellacuria, five other Jesuits, a housekeeper and her daughter.
The killings sparked international outrage and tarnished the image of U.S. anti-communism efforts after it was found that some of the soldiers involved received training at Fort Benning, Georgia.
DEO GRATIAS now read their
DEO GRATIAS
now read their books, and those of the Reverend Father Jon Sobrino SJ, who would have joined them but for a late plane.
And read their brother Jesuits the Reverend Father John Dear SJ and the Reverend Father Daniel Berrigan SJ whose most recent work is now available.
By reading these and acting, we keep their magnificently Roman Catholic Spirit alive.
frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco)
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