Three New Venerables: Two Missionaries in Ecuador and One Indian Bishop

Leo XIV issued his first decrees on the causes of saints and approved the first step towards the beatification of two missionaries: the Spaniard Alejandro Labaka Ugarte (1920-1987) and the Colombian Inés Arango Velásquez (1937-1987), both violently murdered in…

Pope Leo declares three new ‘Venerables’: Ecuador martyrs, Indian bishop

Pope Leo XIV advanced the causes of sainthood for three Servants of God this week, formally recognizing their heroic virtue and designating them as “Venerable.” The… The post Pope Leo declares three new ‘Venerables’: Ecuador martyrs, Indian bishop appeared first on CatholicVote org.

Pope advances sainthood cause of missionaries killed trying to save Indigenous

Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of two missionaries whose murders in the Amazon jungle led to the protection of remote Indigenous peoples from encroaching extractive industries.

Three new Venerables: two missionaries in Ecuador and one Indian bishop

Pope Leo XIV authorizes the promulgation of various decrees for three Servants of God: Colombian Sister Agnese Arango Velásquez, Indian Bishop Matthew Makil, and Spanish Bishop Alessandro Labaka Ugarte. Read all

Thus Inés Arango died, wounded with spears while defending indigenous people in the Ecuadorian jungle: he is about to become a saint TuBarco News The Colombian nun was murdered in 1987 during a peaceful mission with the Tagaeri peoples, a non-contact group. News Colombia. On July 21, 1987, Colombian sister Inés Arango Velásquez was brutally murdered in the depths of the Ecuadorian jungle. Her body was found with multiple spear wounds, along with…

Pope Leo XIV issued his first decrees on the causes of saints and approved the first step for the beatification of two missionaries: Alejandro Labaka Ugarte and Inés Arango Velásquez.The entry Pope Leo XIV took the first step to beatify missionaries who died in Ecuador was first published in Teleamazonas.