Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador [Paperback]

Jon Sobrino (Author), Ignacio Ellacuria (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1990

A haunting, prophetic collection of writings by the six Jesuit priests of the Central American University massacred by Salvadoran soldiers in November, 1989. In a moving memoir Jon Sobrino recalls years of work with each of the priests and celebrates the ideals they embodied.

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• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Orbis Books (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883446995
• ISBN-13: 978-0883446997
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,163,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars ESSENTIAL HAGIOGRAPHY OF OUR AMERICAN MARTYRS SLAIN BY US IMPERIALIST ANTI-CATHOLIC TERRORISM, May 1, 2007

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This book offers us the definitive account of the lives and massacre in communal martyrdom of eight courageous Catholics of these Americas, six Jesuit priests and professors and theologians, and a mother and daughter caretaker, definitive at least until their hagiographies may be officially written in Rome.

Reading the accounts of the lives of these holy innocents must move any true Catholic to prayer and to action and to grief, and ultimately hope in the final glorious Resurrection when we pray Our Lord may one day finally draw us altogether into His Eternal Peace and Joy and Love.

Reading the life's work as well of these great priests and theologians and seminary professors must also stir our hearts and minds and the cold ashes long grown still from lack of fuel. To read the several learned writings of Father Ellacuria, or the careful ode for Archbishop Romero written by Father Ignacio Martin-Baro, all available here on the amazon, is to remember and meditate the truest meaning, mission and message of our great Faith. To read of the simple yet influential pastoral work of Father Lopez y Lopez is to see our Faith in truest action for peace and the evangelization of the poor, until the night we shot him.

The reader finds here a telling quote in Stan Granot Duncan's comprehensive and objective introduction of the crime, which could serve as legal brief presenting every aspect of the martyrdom and massacre for our Faith. The immediate official response of both the the US supported Salvadoran right-wing military dictatorship and from DC was denial of involvement, which quickly proved undeniable. Thus, on page xix we read: "In the U.S., Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney stated emphatically that 'there's no indication at all that the governmentof El Salvador had any involvement' in the crime." Even after the US supported regime admitted its involvement, the US State Dept. continued to deny the truth and speak falsely. The deceptive road to Bagdhad began in San Salvador, often by the same voices.

Please take this book and read deeply. The contributions by Father Jon Sobrino, a member of this same community of Jesuit priests and professors who happened by accident to be out of town the night of their martyrdom, tells it all, as well as the closing eulogy by Jesuit Father Joseph O'Hare of Fordham.

You must read this book, please, in memory of our martyrs and for our own edification, courage, instruction and Faith. This too is our Catechism. The precious blood of our martyrs is the seed of vocations.