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Retired Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros of Brooklyn, N.Y., celebrates Mass in Chalatenango, El Salvador, Jan. 20, 2022, at the tombs of Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, which served as the altar for the celebration of the Eucharist. The two sisters were among the four churchwomen slain in El Salvador by Salvadoran military forces Dec. 2, 1980. Salvadoran bishops are working on a canonization cause for "martyr friends/companions," which will include the four women, as well as foreign-born priests and Salvadoran Catholics slain during the country's civil war., (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)