BL. ENRIQUE CARLETTI, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 4 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 4th of August

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

BL. ENRIQUE CARLETTI, BISHOP AND MARTYR 

Enrique Angel Angelelli Carletti was a bishop who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues. Bl. Enrique was born on July 18, 1923 in Cordoba, Argentina. 

As bishop, his motto was, "Para que todos sean uno" - "So that all may be one".

"SO THAT ALL MAY BE ONE"

Blessed Enrique, whose commitment to the "Church of the Poor" offered a model for the future Pope Francis, was murdered two months after U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's ruling military dirty "warriors" a green light for their illegal repression, which included the torture and murder of allegedly, but unproven estimate of tens of thousands. 

ILLEGAL REPRESSION

The actually number of deaths is disputed, and is seen by many as the retaliation for the terror attacks carried out by the montoneros, a far left terror organisation. There is additionally no evidence that Kissinger knew exactly what the military dictatorship was planning, and didn't ask for specifics. Later in life Kissinger admitted that if he knew what they were planning he would have never agreed. 

HE WOULD HAVE NEVER AGREED

Bishop Angelelli allegedly knew that he was being targeted for assassination by the military; people close to him had often heard him say, "It's my turn next." On August 4, 1976 he was driving a lorry, together with Father Arturo Pinto, back from a Mass celebrated in the town of El Chamical in homage to two murdered priests, Carlos de Dios Murias and Gabriel Longueville, carrying three folders with notes about both cases.

HIS MARTYRDOM

According to Father Pinto, a car started following them, then another one, and in Punta de los Llanos, people forced the lorry between them until toppling it. After being unconscious for a while, Pinto saw Bishop Angelelli dead in the road, with the back of his neck showing grave injuries "as if they had beaten him".

BEATIFICATION

His cause of sainthood opened in 2015 and he was titled a Servant of God. In June 2018 Pope Francis decreed he had died as a martyr for the faith, allowing Angelelli and his companions to be beatified. The beatification of Angelelli and his three companions was celebrated at La Rioja City Park in La Rioja on April 27, 2019. 

(Information from Wikipedia -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Angelelli)