A priest killed for having accomplished an act of faith, that of hospitality and forgiveness, and it is France which finds itself struck again in the heart.
The assassination of Father Olivier Maire, perpetrated this Monday in Vendée lands, caused emotion and amazement, as this religious, provincial superior of the Montfortians community, was renowned for his kindness.
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Unlike the tragedies which cost the life of Father Jacques Hamel, slaughtered in his church in 2016 in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) or the sacristan and the two faithful stabbed last October 29 in the basilica. Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Nice, the trail of Islamist terrorism is not this time privileged.
The unspeakable, which mourns an entire region, was committed by Emmanuel Abayisenga, a Rwandan who had already hit the headlines.
After the fire of the Nantes cathedral, on July 18, 2020, where this Catholic officiated as a volunteer, he was indicted, suspected of being the author
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