Thursday, December 30, 2010

The blood of the martyrs: seed of the Church. The Names of Pastoral Workers, Priests, Men and Women Religious and Lay Catholics killed during 2010

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost their lives in a violent manner over the course of the last 12 months. According to information in our possession, during 2010, 23 pastoral care workers were killed: one Bishop, 15 priests, one male religious, one religious sister, two seminarians and three lay people.

Analysing the list for each continent, again this year the place most affected, with an extremely elevated number of deaths is AMERICA, bathed with the blood of 15 pastoral care workers: 10 priests, one male religious, one seminarian and three lay people. Following is ASIA, with one Bishop, four priests and one religious sister killed. The least affected was AFRICA, where one priests and one seminarian violently lost their lives.

Fides' list does not only include missionaries ad gentes in the strict sense but all pastoral care workers who died violent deaths. We do not propose to use the term “martyrs” since it is up to the Church to judge their possible merits and also because of the scarcity of available information in most of cases, with regard to their life and even the circumstances of their death. In this regard, we register, in this year coming to an end, the opening of the beatification process of the Fidei donum priest Fr Daniele Badiali, a native of the diocese of Faenza (Italy), killed in Peru in 1997, and the beatification of Polish Father Jerzy Popieluszko, martyr, killed in hatred of the faith on 20 October, 1984, near Wroclawek, Poland.

Here is the list provided by Fides. The full document can be found here.


Name and Surname
Nationality
Institute or Diocese
Date and place of death
1.
Father José Luis Parra Puerto
Mexico
Diocesan
17/2 – Mexico
2.
Father Dejair Gonçalves de Almeida
Brazil
Diocesan
16/3 – Volta Redonda (Brazil)
3.
Epaminondas Marques da Silva
Brazil
Laity
16/3 – Volta Redonda (Brazil)
4.
Luis Enrique Pineda
Colombia
Salesian Coadjutor (SDB)
20/3 – Bogotà
5.
Father Román de Jesús Zapata
Colombia
Diocesan
24/3 – Turbo (Colombia)
6.
Father Esteban Robert Wood
USA
Diocesan
28/4 – Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
7.
Father Peter Bombacha
India
Diocesan
28/4 – Baboola (Mumbai, India)
8.
Father Rubens Almeida Gonçalves
Brazil
Diocesan
21/5 – Brasilia (Brazil)
9.
Bishop Luigi Padovese
Italy
Apostolic Vicar  of Anatolia
3/6 - Iskenderun (Turkey)
10.
Mario Dayvit Pinheiro Reis
Brazil
Seminarian
4/7 – Sao Luis (Brazil)
11.
Father Joseph Zhang Shulai
China
Vicar General, Diocese  of Ningxia
5/7 – Wuhai (Mongolia, China)
12.
Sister Maria Wei Yanhui
China
Diocesan Congregation
5/7 – Wuhai (Mongolia, China)
13.
Father Carlos Salvador Wotto
Mexico
Diocesan
28/7 – St. Oaxaca (Mexico)
14.
Father Herminio Calero Alumia
Colombia
Diocesan
20/8 – Quintanares (Colombia)
15.
Father Linán Ruiz Morales
Puerto Rico
OFM
27/8 – Lima (Perù)
16.
Ananias Aguila
Peru
Laity
27/8 - Lima (Perù)
17.
Julien Kénord
Haiti
Caritas worker
8/10 - Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
18.
Father Wasim Sabieh
Iraq
Diocesan
31/10 – Baghdad (Iraq)
19.
Father Thaier Saad Abdal
Iraq
Diocesan
31/10 – Baghdad (Iraq)
20.
Father Christian Bakulene
D.R.Congo
Diocesan
8/11 – Mapere (D.R. Congo)
21
Father Bernardo Muniz Rabelo Amaral
Brasile
Diocesan
20/11 – Brazil
22
Nicolas Eklou Komla
Togo
Jesuit Seminarian (SJ)
5/12 – Kinshasa (D.R. Congo)
23.
Father Miroslaw Karczewski
Polonia
OFM Conv.
6/12 – S.Domingo L.C. (Ecuador)











Te Deum laudamus, te Deum confitemur, te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus

O GOD, we praise Thee: we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord. the white-robed army of Martyrs, praise Thee.

1 comment:

  1. May they rest in peace and those victims of the New Year atrocity in Alexandria.
    Prayers also for Asia Bibi held in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy and under the threat of a death sentence.

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