Otto Messmer, SJ and Victor Betancourt, SJ
On Saturday 25 October, Father Victor Betancourt, an Ecuadorian Jesuit working in the St. Thomas Philosophical, Theological and Historical Institute in Moscow, was killed in his home. Two days later, after returning from a trip abroad, Father Otto Messmer, Superior of the Russian Region, was also killed in the same place. On Tuesday 28 October, alarmed by the fact that he hadn’t heard from the two men, a fellow Jesuit who lives in another community went to visit them at home. On finding the dead bodies, he immediately contacted the police.Please keep in your prayer the Society of Jesus, the families and friends of Fathers Messmer and Betancourt and especially the Jesuits working in Russia.
The police investigations have yet to come to any firm conclusions about cause of these violent deaths.
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