Pope Francis will beatify a priest and a bishop martyred in Colombia when he visits the country in September, a Vatican spokesman has said.
In an email to the Catholic News Service, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed that Pope Francis will beatify Bishop Jesus Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve of Arauca and Fr Pedro Ramirez Ramos. The beatification Mass will be at Catama field in Villavicencio on September 8, Burke said.
At a meeting on July 7 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, the Pope signed decrees acknowledging the martyrdom of Bishop Jaramillo, who was murdered by Colombian Marxist guerrillas in 1989.
