Church remembers Fr Jacques Hamel

Jul 28th, 2018

Fr Hamel

Father Jacques Hamel was killed by IS militants on 26 July 2016, while he celebrated Mass at his church in northern France.

To mark the second anniversary of his death on Thursday, a number of events were held, including a 'Republican ceremony for peace and fraternity' in the presence also of the French Interior Minister, and a number of religious initiatives. These include the recitation of the Rosary, a silent procession and Mass celebrated by Archbishop Dominique Lebrun at the exact same time as Fr Jacques' murder.

Archbishop Lebrun was present during the Casa Santa Marta Mass when Pope Francis called Fr Hamel one of the many Christian "martyrs" of the Church today. Men and women, he said, "who are murdered, tortured, imprisoned, slaughtered because they refuse to renounce their faith and deny Jesus Christ."

They form "a chain" the Pope said, which reaches as far as Father Jacques whose cause of beatification was opened in April 2017 thanks to a papal dispensation cutting short the usual five year wait.

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