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MARTIRIO: Introduction (Supplemental, N. 1)

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St. Augustine said that the church walks amid the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God and their intuition entered the Second Vatican Council in the n. 8 of Lumen Gentium stated that just as Christ accomplished redemption in poverty and persecution, so the Church is bound to follow the same path to communicate to men the fruits of salvation [i] .

For the Church is not optional carry out its mission in poverty and persecution, this condition is imposed by nature historical and sacramental.

However, for the Church to carry out that mission in fidelity to this principle requires a constant exercise of responsibility in history, ie, must bear the pains and sufferings of the world as their own, then it follows with the footsteps of Jesus, in other words, is called the exercise of mercy.

Obviously, when the Church is taken in a responsible way sacramental mission in history, this almost always leads to confront the evil that prevails in the world. But just in this conflict it conforms to their Lord, who came not to be served but to serve (cf. Mt 20:28). So the Church responsible not surprised that some of its members are tortured and killed by these evil powers. In fact, the Church was born under the cross, Christ's side, suffered under the Roman emperors, and continues to suffer under the "emperors" of the Modern World. So that martyrdom is continuity in history, ie, does not refer only to the first centuries of Christian history, but it can also be found today.

Therefore, martyrdom is, first, the ultimate expression of the ecclesial responsibility, and, moreover, makes the Church an institution credible. Martyrdom gives credibility to the witnesses, who do not seek power or material gain, but donate their own lives for Christ. They manifest the world the strength helpless and full of love for men. Thus Christians since the dawn of Christianity until today, have suffered persecution for the gospel [ii] . In this paper tries to make an ecclesial reading of martyrdom from the Latin American experience of it, reading from the categories of sacrament and responsibility. We propose two examples: first pastoral vision of the martyred archbishop, Bishop OA Romero, on the other hand, the ecclesiological vision of the theologian Ellacuría martyr.
[i] Vatican II Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium (21 of moviembre, 1964), n. 8: AAS 57 (1965), 11.
[ii] Cf Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Doctrinal Note on some Aspects of Evangelization (December 3, 2007), n. 8, Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2007.