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Martyrs, bishops, and keeping our souls

The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
May 23, 2023
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Hey everybody,

Twenty-seven years ago this week — on May 21, 1996 — seven Trappist monks were martyred in Algeria, after spending two months in the captivity of the terrorist Armed Islamic Group.

The kidnappers had come to the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas on March 27 of that year, kidnapping the monks in the middle of the night. The captors demanded the rel…

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