Jeremy Zipple, SJ

The garden of the Jesuit community house at Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador, where six Jesuits were executed by a military death squad 35 years ago yesterday.

Jesuits martyrs of UCA, pray for us.

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So much about the night was moving, in particular, seeing campesinos arriving for the Mass from rural areas hours away in packed pickups with no covering on a very rainy night.

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On that note, was good to see @RepMcGovern in attendance for the Mass and procession. As a congressional staffer in the 90’s, McGovern devoted years investigating the UCA killings & has been a fierce advocate for human rights in Latin Americs.

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The Jesuits were just 6 of scores of clergy & religious executed during the civil war by a US-funded & trained military dictatorship. As a current UCA student told our group, “They killed these clergy because they realized they could get away with it. The US didn’t stop them.”

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Yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the martyrdom, by military death squad, of the 6 Jesuits & 2 woman at the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. We pilgrimaged 16 hours from Belize w 20 students for the celebrations & it was so worth it.

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