Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuría was assassinated on November 16, 1989, by the Salvadoran military during El Salvador’s civil war because he had been a vocal critic of the military’s human rights abuses and of the war. Ellacuría was killed along with five other priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter in the priests’ academic center in San Salvador. They are collectively known as the Salvadoran Martyrs. Their cause for canonization as Roman Catholic saints began in 2023.
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