Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr’s death. Of this there can be no question. The 85-year-old priest was at the altar offering the sacrifice of Mass, the moment in which the Church makes present the sacrifice of Christ’s body and blood for the salvation of the world, and his blood was literally mingled with that of Christ. The savagery of the attack has left the secular world, and many in the Church, stunned. While there is a natural human revulsion to such crazed brutality, the Church was founded on such acts of bloody witness to the faith.
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There can be no doubt that Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr's death
The Church today is living in a time of saints, and of martyrs, and I suspect we shall see rather more of both in the coming weeks and years
Ed Condon
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