Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve

Life

Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve was born in 1916 in Colombia.

He commenced his ecclesial studies in February 1929 and made his first vows into the Xaverian Missionaries of Yaramul on 3 December 1936. The Colombian Episcopal Conference referred to the assassination as "vile, sacrilegious and pitiless".

In 2008 the Colombian government apprehended Carlos Marin Guarin who had ordered the bishop's killing due to Jaramillo's vocal opposition to the E.L.N. and its aims and his overt support for a local paramilitary group responsible for several murders, decapitations and acid attacks on local peasants, farmers, trade unionists and community activists. The E.L.N. later admitted after Jaramillo's death that he had been kidnapped so as to use him as a message-bearer to President Virgilio Barco Vargas to hear their demands. Francis himself presided over the beatification during his papal visit to Colombia at an open-air Mass on 8 September 2017 at Catama Field in Villavicencio. Jaramillo's remains were exhumed for canonical inspection on 24 August 2017.

The current postulator for this cause is the Redemptorist priest Antonio Marrazzo.