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During the Salvadoran Civil War, on 16 November 1989, Salvadoran Army soldiers killed six Jesuits and two women, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at their residence on the campus of Central American University (known as UCA El Salvador) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Polaroid photos of the Jesuits' bullet-riddled bodies were on display in the ...
Around 40 Poles were murdered in the Jesuit monastery on Rakowiecka Street on 2 August 1944. Among them were eight priests and eight religious brothers of the Society of Jesus, [b] at least eight women and a 10-year-old altar boy. [9] [10] Polish historians were able to identify 32 victims of the massacre. [9]
The Martyrs of Natal were a group of 30 Roman Catholic people of Colonial Brazil – two of them priests – killed in the northern part of the colony in massacres that a large group of Dutch Calvinists led. [2] One priest was a Colonial Brazilian Jesuit missionary, while the other priest was an
Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch ...
Other Jesuit missionaries were killed by the Mohawk and martyred in the following years: Antoine Daniel (1648), [9] Jean de Brébeuf (1649), [5] Noël Chabanel (1649), [6] Charles Garnier (1649), [6] and Gabriel Lalemant (1649). [5] All were canonized in 1930 as the Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs.
However, the list only includes ordained Jesuits and does not include some accused people who were affiliated with the Jesuits. [22] Seven on the list taught at Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine. [22] All but 15 of the Roman Catholic priests on the list are dead, and all of the alleged abuse took place before 1997. [22]
A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the ...
Memorial depicting Oscar Romero and the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador.. On December 2, 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard (Daniel Canales Ramírez, Carlos Joaquín Contreras Palacios, Francisco Orlando Contreras Recinos, José Roberto Moreno Canjura, and Luis ...