Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve
Colombian philosopher
Feast: 2 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve was born at Santo Domingo, Antioquia, Colombia, on 14 February 1916, and in 1929 entered the Yarumal Foreign Missions Institute, founded to evangelise the most abandoned parts of the country. On 11 November 1969 he was named vicar apostolic of Arauca, later its bishop.
He gave his whole life to the people of God, preaching reconciliation and Christian love. On 2 October 1989, returning from a pastoral visit, he was kidnapped by armed men, savagely tortured and murdered. He is buried in Arauca cathedral.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A missionary bishop who preached reconciliation in a land of violence and was killed for it.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Jesús Jaramillo Monsalve
- Wikidata Q32111538 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.