Martyred Priest’s Last Words to Jihadists: ‘Be Gone, Satan!’

[BlueStateSaint]

Gutsy . . .

Martyred Priest’s Last Words to Jihadists: ‘Be Gone, Satan!’

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.  4 Aug 2016

Just before having his throat slit by two Islamic terrorists in northern France last week, Father Jacques Hamel told one of his assailants, “Be gone, Satan!”, according to the priest’s bishop.

In his homily at the martyred priest’s funeral Mass on Tuesday, Rouen’s Archbishop Dominique Lebrun gave details of the last moments of the priest’s life as he was slaughtered for his Christian faith.

“Evil is a mystery that reaches summits of horror beyond what is human,” the Archbishop said. “Is that not what you meant, Jacques, by your last words? Falling to the ground after the first stab, you try to push away your attacker with your feet saying, ‘Go away Satan!’”

The archbishop said that the priest then repeated a second time: “Be Gone, Satan!”

During the same homily, with members of the Muslim community present, Archbishop Lebrun explicitly addressed those who may be tempted by jihad.

Good doesn't back down in the face of evil.  Father Hamel is with the Eternal Father now.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/04/martyred-priests-last-words-jihadists-gone-satan/

[Eupher]

Wouldn't surprise me if, some years down the road, they turn him into a saint.

His actions would qualify him, I'd think.