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Ignacio Ellacuría

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Beatitudes in the Modern World: Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ Ignacio Ellacuría, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to help liberate the poor and oppressed in Latin America. He spent most of his life working in El Salvador. He was born on November 9th, 1930 in Portugalete, Spain located in the Biscay province. He was educated at “ the Jesuit school in Tudela, Navarra.”1 He “began his novitiate to become a Jesuit on September 14,1947, at the age of 17.”2 After the seminary Ignacio Ellacuría was missioned to Santa Tecla, El Salvador. E l l a c u r í a f u r t h e r e d h i s e d u c a t i o n a n d “ s t u d i e d H u m a n i t i e s a n d P h i l o s o p h y a t Q u i t o , E c u a d o r a n d T h e o l o g y a t I n n s b r u c k , A u s t r i …show more content…

The Legacy of Ignacio Ellacuría: Ten Years after Martyrdom. Barcelona, Spain: Christianisme I Justícia, 1999. 2 " Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.: Loyola University Chicago." Loyola University Chicago. Accessed March 10, 2016. http://www.luc.edu/mission/ihm2014/thesalvadoranmartyrs/ignacioellacuriasj/. 3 " Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ (1930­1989) ­ IgnatianSpirituality.com." Ignatian Spirituality. Accessed March 10, 2016. http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian­voices/20th­century­ignatian­voices/ignacio­ellacuria­sj­1930­1989. 4 " Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.: Loyola University Chicago." Loyola University Chicago. Accessed March 10, 2016. http://www.luc.edu/mission/ihm2014/thesalvadoranmartyrs/ignacioellacuriasj/. 5 W hitfield, Teresa. Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuría and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, …show more content…

They were murdered for many reasons. The general reason was because they were outspoken on the injustices in the country. They were accused of being communists, Marxists, and even atheists. There were also accused of being liberationists, an accusation that was true for all and specifically true for Ellacuría who taught and was a huge global leader in the ideas of liberation philosophy. All of this led to the night when “about thirty men dressed in military uniform,” took “three of the Jesuits out into the garden and tortured and machine­gunned them there,” and murdered the others in the house. There were a total of six Jesuits murdered that night to

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