Rutilio Grande
Jesuit priest in El Salvador
Died when: 48 years 250 days (584 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Rutilio Grande García, SJ (5 July 1928 in El Paisnal – 12 March 1977 in Aguilares) was a Jesuit priest in El Salvador.He was assassinated in 1977, along with two other Salvadorans.
He was the first priest assassinated before the Salvadoran Civil War started and a close friend of Archbishop Óscar Romero.
After his death, Romero changed his silence and urged the military junta to investigate the murder.His beatification, through his status as a martyr, was approved by Pope Francis on 21 February 2020, with the ceremony being held on 22 January 2022.
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