07-27-2016, 11:20 AM
Father Jacques Hamel (30 November 1930 – 26 July 2016) was a French Catholic priest in the parish of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. Hamel was martyred by two men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State while he said mass in his church on 26 July 2016.
Hamel was ordained as a priest in 1958.[2] He served as a vicar at the St.-Antoine church in Le Petit-Quevilly in 1958, a vicar at the Notre-Dame de Lourdes church in Sotteville-lès-Rouen in 1967, a parish priest at Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf in 1975, and a parish priest in Cléon in 1988.[3] He joined the church at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in 2000 and assumed his role as the parish’s auxiliary priest in 2005.[3]
With Mohammed Karabila, the president of Normandy's regional council of Muslims, Hamel worked on an interfaith committee.[2][4]
Hamel's throat was slit by two men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State while he was saying mass in his parish in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray on 26 July 2016.[5][6] The very same day, Italian politician Roberto Maroni called on the Pope to "immediately proclaim him St Jacques."[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Hamel
Comment: Death to Daesh!
Hamel was ordained as a priest in 1958.[2] He served as a vicar at the St.-Antoine church in Le Petit-Quevilly in 1958, a vicar at the Notre-Dame de Lourdes church in Sotteville-lès-Rouen in 1967, a parish priest at Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf in 1975, and a parish priest in Cléon in 1988.[3] He joined the church at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in 2000 and assumed his role as the parish’s auxiliary priest in 2005.[3]
With Mohammed Karabila, the president of Normandy's regional council of Muslims, Hamel worked on an interfaith committee.[2][4]
Hamel's throat was slit by two men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State while he was saying mass in his parish in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray on 26 July 2016.[5][6] The very same day, Italian politician Roberto Maroni called on the Pope to "immediately proclaim him St Jacques."[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Hamel
Comment: Death to Daesh!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.