Finally recognized as a martyr, beatification has been approved for Jesuit Rutilio Grande, whose murder on 3/12/1977 along with an elderly peasant and a teenage boy, marked the opening of a terrible wave of persecution against the church in El Salvador. (Icon Robt Lentz)
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It also marked a crisis for the newly installed archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, that initiated his own path toward Calvary. Romero announced that there would be only a single Mass in the country at the cathedral as a memorial. 100k attended.
