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6 jesuit priests
In the early morning of November 16, 1989, government troops of El Salvador broke into the Jesuit residence of the Central American University in San Salvador and murdered six Jesuit priests - Ignacio Ellacuria, Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno, and Amado Lopez - and their housekeeper, Elba Ramos, and her daughter Celia Marisela Ramos. They were shot in the head with M16’s at close rang. The Jesuits were labeled subversives by the Salvadoran Government for speaking out against the oppressive socioeconomic structure of Salvadoran society. Their assassinations were ordered for their unwavering defense of the poor. The priests and the two women were part of 75,000 who died in El Salvador’s civil war.
Many of those responsible for the murders were trained by the United States at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, GA.
A beautiful icon of these martyrs is available at Building Bridge Images.
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