Posted on 10/09/2016 10:15:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
In July, Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered while celebrating Mass at his parish in Normandy, France. Pope Francis recently announced that the Vatican was going to open formal investigation as to whether his death constitutes an act of martyrdom in order to canonize him as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
Normally, there is a five-year waiting period before the sainthood process can begin, but Pope Francis waived this waiting period as the majority of the witnesses to Fr. Hamel's death are elderly and may pass away before five years are up. Now, those witnesses have begun sharing the story of Fr. Hamel's last moments on earth.
Sr. Danielle, one of the nuns attending Mass that day, confirmed that Fr. Hamel's last words were "Be gone, Satan!", which he yelled out twice before his throat was slit.
Guy Coponet says, “I prayed as I have never prayed in my life. I called upon all the saints I could think of. First of all, little Brother Charles [de Foucauld], also killed by a Muslim, in the desert. In my heart of hearts, I recited my favorite prayer: ‘Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will… Into your hands I commend my soul.’ I was in his hands. Especially after Mass!”
The journalists asked about reports that before his death Fr. Hamel called out twice, “Be gone Satan!” and whether the trio saw evil in action. “No doubt,” said Sr. Danielle, “This does not mean that [the assailant] Adel Kermiche was possessed, but that Satan was at work in a powerful way. Father Jacques wanted to exorcise this evil. Those were his last words. Satan does not like the Eucharist …”
One of the murderers, Adel Kermiche, mocked one of the nuns participating in the Mass for her belief in Jesus.
After stabbing Guy Coponet and dragging him to the altar steps, Kermiche commenced a conversation with Sr. Helen, one of the members of Sr. Danielle’s community. As Sr. Danielle relates, Kermiche asked, “Are you afraid of dying?” When the nun said “no” he seemed surprised and asked her why not.
“Because I believe in God, and I know I will be happy.”
The killer said, in a low voice, “I believe in God too, and I am not afraid of death.” Then he declared: “Jesus is a man, not God!”
The two assailants were shot dead by police following the attack.
Despite witnessing such unimaginable horror, the witnesses to Fr. Hamel's death say that their faith remains strong, and that by the grace of God they will be able to one day forgive the attackers.
His facial features remind me of those of St. John Vianney’s that I have seen on prayer cards and other pictures.
If France is not listening, where this atrocity took place, how can you expect America to wake up to the muzzie scourge?
While it is not my place to judge, my hunch is that the killer has found out that he should have been afraid of death. Very afraid.
If my hunch is correct, he will be afraid FOREVER.
In the eyes of God this saintly man is a Saint. We just have yet to accept it. Need new Crusade!
Where’s Thomas Jefferson when you need him.
Because he is surely rotting or burning in Hell
No whackjob Islamic, not afraid of dying cuz I too have a club, knife and gun. Coward Muslims hate equal playing fields. Never trust a Muslim. They are childish bullies that others must constantly watch. Ship em back to their Dictatorship paradise.
I’m disgusted by this incident. The muslim who did it was full of hate. It picked on an old man. It had renounced its claim to humanity by belonging to izlam, a violent world-expansionist movement cleverly disguised as a religion.
God bless him and all the Christian martyrs who have suffered at the hands of Islamic evil...
"Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son."
1 John 2:22
There is an incription on the Dome of the Rock that specifically denies the divinity of Christ.
This image is also in marble, on the Dome of the Rock exterior:
Islam is the AntiChrist. Islam is Evil. Islam is the Liar
That last picture is the face of a demon!
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