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  1. Fr Rutilio Grande, born in the small town of El Paisnal on 5 July 1928, was a Jesuit of unsuspected religious and human depth. In his weakness he found his greatness. He lived much of his life in the silence and humility of those who are becoming, step by step, companions of Jesus.

  2. On March 12, 1977, Rutilio Grande was murdered alongside an elderly man, Manuel Solorzano, and a teenage boy, Nelson Lemus. When Archbishop Romero learned of the death of his friend, it awakened him to the reality of his fellow Salvadorans.

  3. Fr Rutilio Grandes martyrdom marked the beginning of a campaign of persecution of the Church in El Salvador. Rutilio was assassinated on March 12th 1977 together with his sacristan, Manuel Solorzano and young assistant Nelson Lemus.

  4. Jan 21, 2022 · On this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” we examine the story of Rutilio Grande through the eyes of his friends, family and scholars of his legacy.

    • A Servant-Leader
    • Pastoral Immersion
    • Agents of Change
    • ‘Revolutionary Inspiration’

    Father Grande was born into a family of rural farmers near the same Salvadoran village where he would be killed by his own government 47 years later. He was raised by his grandmother and older brother in a pre-Vatican II church that preached pious service as the path to redemption in the next life; both poverty and suffering in this world were orda...

    Father Grande began his ministry as the prefect of discipline at the major seminary in San Salvador, where he was deeply committed to the formation of seminarians. He recognized a vast divide between the academic and spiritual formation of seminarians and their pastoral formation—how they related to the people they would serve. To heal that divide ...

    Father Grande eventually left the seminary and traveled to Quito, Ecuador, to the Institute for Pastoral Ministry sponsored by the bishops of Latin America. There he learned how to galvanize poor communities that were oppressed by the social forces around them. What he learned in Ecuador would prove transformative for the rural farming communities ...

    In his homily at Father Grande’s funeral, Archbishop Romero said: Father Grande was an example of a servant-leader who embraced poverty and fulfilled his priesthood—not by bringing a wealthy church to the poor but by fully participating in the church already present among the poor. The beatification of Rutilio Grande, S.J., sends a clear message fr...

  5. Blessed Rutilio Grande, SJ, who worked among El Salvador’s poor, was executed by Salvadoran death squads on March 12, 1977. He was beatified on January 22, 2022 , along with his two companions, Nelson Lemus and Manuel Solórzano, and Franciscan Fr. Cosme Spessotto.

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  7. Mar 4, 2020 · Here, in the early evening of 12 March, Fr Rutilio Grande was ambushed in his car and assassinated by Salvadoran security forces, along with two passengers – 72-year-old Manuel Solorzano and...

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