{"id":23019,"date":"2017-05-29T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=23019"},"modified":"2017-05-29T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:35:29","slug":"france-beatification-process-fr-jacques-hamel-begins-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/05\/29\/france-beatification-process-fr-jacques-hamel-begins-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE &#8211; Beatification process for Fr Jacques Hamel begins &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>FRANCE &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Opening of the Process of Beatification of Fr Jacques Hamel<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis decided to dispense with the usual five-year delay \u00a0after the death of a baptized person to open the process of Beatification of Father Jacques Hamel. The announcement was made by Mgr Dominque Lebrun on 2October 2016 during a Mass to mark the reopening of the Saint Etienne du Rouvray church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first audience of the process for the beatification of Father Jacques Hamel was held on Saturday 20 May\u00a0 in the Chapel of Aubigne of the Archbishop of Rouen, France. The meeting, which lasted an hour, was organized by the Postulator, Father Paul Vigouroux who officially asked for the Archbishop\u2019s approval of the opening of the process in view of the recognition of the martyrdom of Father Hamel. Around fifty people \u2013 families, witnesses of the murder, parishioners and Muslim friends of Saint Etienne du Rouvray \u2013 gathered under the presidency of the Archbishop, Monsignor Dominique Lebrun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the forthcoming months the tribunal that was set up consisting of a Delegate Judge, a Promoter of Justice and three clerks will interview 69 witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mgr Lebrun stressed the spiritual reach of this event, reminding those present that if Fr Hamel\u2019s \u00a0\u201cmartyrdom\u201d is recognized, the Beatification does not require another \u2018miracle\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Father Jacques Hamel was murdered, while celebrating Mass, by Muslim terrorists on July 26, 2016 in his church at Saint Etienne du Rouvray, on the outskirts of Rouen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis described him, during the Mass at Saint Martha\u2019s last September 14, as a \u201cgood, gentle, fraternal man who always sought to make peace\u201d and he stated that Fr Hamel was a \u201cmartyr.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fr Jacques Hamel\u2019s Breviary was deposited in Saint Bartholomew\u2019s Basilica &#8211; the Basilica of New Martyrs &#8211; in Rome by Mgr Dominque Lebrun on 15 September 2016. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE &#8211;\u00a0Opening of the Process of Beatification of Fr Jacques Hamel \u00a0 Pope Francis decided to dispense with the usual five-year delay \u00a0after the death of a baptized person to open the process of Beatification of Father Jacques Hamel. 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