The Salvadoran Martyrs are eight people—six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter—who were murdered by an elite Salvadoran military squad on November 16, 1989, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Their names are Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes Mozo, Juan Ramón Moreno Pardo, Joaquín López y López, Amando López Quintana, Julia Elba Ramos, and Celina Ramos. The assassination occurred during the country’s civil war, of which Ellacuría and the other priests had been vocal critics. Ellacuría had also been outspoken about the military’s human rights abuses. The martyrs’ cause for their canonization as Roman Catholic saints opened in 2023.
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