Martyrs

Also French President Emmanuel Macron will attend today’s service of homage to Fr Hamel in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, south of Rouen, in Normandy, exactly a year after and at the same time in which the priest was brutally slain by two youths affiliated to the self-declared Islamic State. “He was a humble, reserved priest. He seldom spoke, but he occupied a special place in the hearts and lives of the people”, the vicar general of the diocese of Rouen, Father Philippe Maheut, told SIR. "It’s the holiness of daily life, which means remaining faithful to one’s daily deeds, seeking to do them well”

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