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Pope Remembers Fr Hamel On Instagram

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Pope Remembers Fr Hamel On Instagram

On July 26, Pope Francis remembered the first anniversary of the murder of French Father Jacques Hamel. A year since the 80-year-old priest was murdered by two militant Islamists on the morning of July 26, 2016, while celebrating Mass in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in the diocese of Rouen, Normandy.

The Pontiff”€™s Instagram account published a photo of Pope Francis taken during the Mass celebrated in the presence of a group of pilgrims of the Diocese of Rouen last September 14, in memory of the elderly priest. The post is accompanied by the following message in French, English and Portuguese: “€œToday we remember Father Hamel who, as so many other martyrs of our time, spent his life at the service of others.”€

Father Hamel”€™s Cause of Beatification opened at the diocesan level last April 13. Pope Francis in fact waived the mandatory five-year waiting period for the opening of such causes.

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