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Photos of the Week: Jan. 24, 2022
Bishop visits tomb for U.S. women in El Salvador who may become martyrs
Representatives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops celebrated Mass Jan. 20 at the tomb of two Maryknoll sisters from the U.S. buried El Salvador — where they were murdered in 1980 — and called them “martyrs” and “models” for the Catholic Church.
U.S. bishop with a Salvadoran heart weighs in on historic beatifications
As El Salvador gets ready for four beatifications Jan. 22, 2022, Bishop Hicks, who spent time as a missionary in the Central American country, says there’s a lot to glean from lives of the four martyrs from the tiny nation.
South Korean diocese says remains of first Catholic martyrs recovered
During his visit to South Korea in 2014, Pope Francis beatified the three along with 121 other martyrs persecuted and killed during the rule of the Joseon dynasty in Korea.
Saints of the Week: The First Martyrs of Rome
After a raging fire destroyed two-thirds of Rome in 64, Emperor Nero blamed Rome’s Christians to divert suspicion from himself.
‘A long line’ of holy catechists have served the church, pope notes
Pope Francis pointed to the number of lay catechists declared martyrs, blesseds or saints by the church.
Lebanese man’s decades of research helps great-uncle’s sainthood cause
An extensive research beginning around 1979 by great nephew helped bring about the cause of canonization of the two martyrs from Baabdat: Fathers Melki and Saleh.
Forty years after killings, Salvadoran city claims Maryknoll Sisters as its own
Sisters Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Carla Piette, Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan are remembered each Dec. 2, the day of their deaths, in the diocese as part of a long list of local martyrs.