340: That's how many Jesuits were martyred in the course of the 20th century, from the Boxer Rebellion in June 1900 through the unrest in East Timor in September 1999.

Not 6: Six is how many Jesuits were slain by right-wing militia at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989. But a recent graduate of a Jesuit college or university might easily have formed the impression those six represented the sum total of Jesuit martyrs.

Because for all the annual Jesuit campus commemorations of the 1989 martyrdom of the six Salvadoran Jesuits, and all the attendant marches on the School of the Americas, correspondingly little mention is made of the other Jesuits who lost their lives over the past century.

Not to mention all the Jesuits in the previous four centuries who died for their faith, such as St. Edmund Campion and nine Jesuit companions among the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales, memorialized Oct. 25, or St. Isaac Jogues and the North American Martyrs, Oct 19.

A Google search on the word "martyrs" among the web pages of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities returns but one document.

This is not to diminish the deaths of the six Salvadoran Jesuit martyrs of 1989. But to emphasize only their loss, to advance the causes of liberation theology and a blinkered, anachronistic anti-Americanism, diminishes the deaths of hundreds of other Jesuits across the globe similarly martyred under conditions of war or persecution.

It's November. On Jesuit campuses across the country, "peace-and-justice" activists of the NCR and Fr. Drinan stripe are preparing to plant crosses in the quad in memory of the 1989 martyrs, and to make the annual pilgrimage to protest the School of the Americas with the Catholic Noam Chomsky, Rev. Roy Bourgeois.

What these "peace-and-justice" activists, seemingly caught in amber during the Contra protests of the Reagan era, actually are doing is delivering an annual indictment of the United States as the source of evil in the world.

They use the six Salvadoran Jesuit martyrs of 1989 to advance a leftist political agenda that has more to do with Marxist-inspired liberation theology, vestigial Sandinista worship and contempt for the United States than it does with "social justice."

Want to plant crosses to commemorate Jesuits who gave their lives for the faith? How about laying aside a patch of grass for those killed in the Spanish Civil War? It had better be a large section of lawn, though. Here's a list:

 Fr José María Alegre Jiménez (1865-1936) 10-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr Bartolomeo Arbona Estades (1862-1936) 29-11-1936: Barcelona
 Br Juan Bautista Arconada Pérez (1890-1934) 7-10-1934: Oviedo
 Fr Ramón Artigues Sirvent (1902-1936) 20-7-1936: Lérida
 Fr Francisco Audí Cid (1872-1936) 3-11-1936: Tortosa
 Fr Jesús Ballesta Tejero (1903-1936) 8-8-1936: Madrid
 Fr Narciso Basté Basté (1866-1936) 15-10-1936: Valencia
 Fr Luis Boguñá Porta (1893-1936) 14-8-1936: Gerona
 Fr Pablo Bori Puig (1864-1936) 29-9-1936: Valencia
 Fr Constantino Carbonell Sempere (1866-1936) 23-8-1936: Gandía
 Fr Andrés Carrió Bertrán (1876-1936) 26-8-1936: Alicante
 Fr Manuel De La Cerda y De Las Bárcenas (1900-1936) 4-12-1936: Madrid
 Fr Olegario Corral García (1871-1936) 28-12-1936: Santander
 Fr Fé1ix Cots Oliveras (1895-1936) 21-7-1936: Barcelona
 Br José Ignacio Elduayen Larrañaga (1884-1936) 7-8-1936: Madrid
 Fr Juan Bautista Ferreres Boluda (1861-1936) 29-12-1936: Valencia
 Br Pedro Gelabert Amer (1887-1936) 23-8-1936: Gandía
 Fr Juan Gómez Hellín (1899-1936) 2-10-1936: Madrid
 Fr Manuel González Hernández (1889-1936) 8-9-1936: Ciudad Real
 Br Ramón Grimaltos Monllor (1861-1936) 23-8-1936: Gandia
 Fr Darío Hernández Morató (1880-1936) 29-9-1936: Valencia
 Br Domingo Ibarlucea Iregui (1906-1936) 8-9-1936: Ciudad Real
 Br Felipe Iriondo Amundaráin (1869-1936) 21-7-1936: Barcelona
 Br Lorenzo Isla Sanz (1865-1936) 25-7-1936: Tarragona
 Fr Manuel Luque Fontanilla (1856-1936) 29-8-1936: Almería
 Br José Llatje Blanc (1893-1936) 5-9-1936: Tortosa
 Br Constantino March Batlles (1877-1937) 16-3-1937: Barcelona
 Fr Emilio Martínez Martínez (1893-1934) 7-10-1934: Oviedo
 Fr Braulio Martínez Simón (1852-1936) 25-7-1936: Tarragona
 Fr Marcial Mayorga Paredes (1902-1936) 15-10-1936: Santander
 Fr Miguel Mendoza Reig (1889-1936) 1-9-1936: Barcelona
 Fr José Muñoz Albiol (1904-1936) 15-10-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Jaime Noguera Baró (1901-1937) 14-2-1937: Barcelona
 Fr Alfonso Payán Pérez (1877-1936) 30-8-1936: Almería
 Fr Manuel Peypoch Sala (1870-1936) 29-7-1936: Manresa
 Fr José Romá Carreres (1895-1936) 21-7-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Juan Rovira Oriandis (1877-1936) 3-11-1936: Tortosa
 Br Pascual Ruiz Ramírez (1901-1936) 7-8-1936: Madrid
 Br Vicente Sales Genovés (1888-1936) 29-9-1936: Valencia
 Br José Sampol Escalas (1899-1936) 27-8-1936: Barcelona
 Fr José SAnchez Oliva (1891-1936) 9-9-1936: Ciudad Real
 Br Antonio Sanchiz Martínez (1906-1936) 9-9-1936: Ciudad Real
 Fr Martín Santaella Gutiérrez (1873-1936) 26-8-1936: Almería
 Fr Alfredo Simón Colomina (1877-1936) 29-11-1936: Valencia
 Fr Tomás Sioar Fortiá (1866-1936) 19-8-1936: Gandía
 Br José Tarrats Comaposada (1876-1936) 28-9-1936: Valencia
 Fr Francisco Javier Tena Colom (1863-1936) 26-8-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Ricardo Tena Montero De Espinosa (1877- 1936) 8-9-1936: Azuaga
 Fr Joaquín María Valentí De Marti (1884- 1936) 14-8-1936: Gerona
 Fr Ignacio de Velasco Nieto (1890-1936) 24-9-1936: Madrid
 Fr José Vergés De Trias (1898-1936) 14-8-1936: Gerona
 Fr Demetrio Zurbitu Recalde (1886-1936) 20-10-1936: Barcelona

 Br Catarino Abril Marín (1881-1936) 23-8-1936: Valencia
 Fr Ismael Accensi Cid (1894-1936) 3-8-1936: Tortosa
 Br Diego Aguilera (1912-1938) 29-3-1938: Córdoba
 Br Juan Bautista Andrada Salvador (1898-1936) 25-10-1936: Valencia
 Fr José del Arco (1889-1936) 27-12-1936: Santander
 Br José Manuel Arín Dorronsoro (1887-1936) 26-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr Angel Armiñana Silvestre (1902-1936) 3-10-1936: Alicante
 Fr Leopoldo Barba Caballero (1870-1936) 18-9-1936: Málaga
 Fr Juan ● Fr Beamonte García (1895-1936) 7-8-1936: Valencia
 Fr Manuel Berdún (1879-1937) 15-3-1937: Barcelona
 Fr Paulino Bertrán Sempere (1874-1936) 10-8-1936: Manresa
 Br Tomás Boix Almiñana (1866-1936) 24-8-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Baldomero Bonilla Fernández (1865-1936) 15-10-1936: Murcia
 Fr Ignacio Casanovas Camprubí (1865-1936) 21-8-1936: Barcelona
 Br Ramón Codina Alier (1869-1936) 25-7-1936: Barcelona
 Br José Conti Sala (1865-1936) 9-8-1936: Valencia
 Br Manuel Darder Palahi (1862-1936) 15-10-1936: Valencia
 Br Agustín Díaz y Zapata (1869-1936) 27-7-1936: Toledo
 Br José Fabregat Verdú (1893-1936) 8-9-1936: Valencia
 Fr Agustín Fernández Hernández (1904-1936) 14-8-1936: Gijón
 Fr Manuel Fernández Díaz-Masa (1904-1936) 30-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr José F. Ferragut Sbert (1889-1936) 21-9-1936: Barcelona
 Br Vicente Fonfría Geri (1891-1936) 29-10-1936: Valencia
 Br Tomás Frasno Peñarrocha (1866-1936) 29-7-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Narciso Fuentes Ruiz-Delgado (1875- 1936) 12-8-1936: Valencia
 Br José Gabarrón Pérez (1868-1936) 13-10-1936: Málaga
 Br José García Molina (1911-1936) 14-8-1936: Málaga
 Fr Zacarías García Villada (1879-1936) 1-10-1936: Madrid
 Fr Nemesio Gonzalez Alonso (1866-1936) 14-8-1936: Gijdn
 Fr Luis Gordillo Díaz (1898-1936) 23-7-1936: Málaga
 Fr Vicente Guimerá Roca (1869-1936) 30-9-1936: Valencia
 Fr Joaquín Hernández López (1881-1936) 7-8-1936: Madrid
 Br Antonio Jiménez Blázquez (1885-1936) 13-10-1936: Málaga
 Fr José Juan Martínez (1867-1936) 26-9-1936: Valencia
 Fr Martín Juste García (1863-1936) 27-7-1936: Toledo
 Fr Florentino Laria Sampedro (1866-1936) 5-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr Manuel de Larragan Alfaro (1884-1936) 15-10-1936: Madrid
 Fr Manuel Mañes Bosch (1887-1936) 25-7-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Juan Martínez García (1902-1936) 19-9-1936: Madrid
 Fr Jesús Martínez Hernández (1903-1936) 7-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr Valentino Mayordomo González (1878- 1937) 18-3-1937: Santander
 Br José Mendizdbal Tolosa (1881-1937) 18-5-1937: Santander
 Br Angel Mercader Vatero (1889-1936) 14-8-1936: Valencia
 Fr Pedro Miró De Mesa (1901-1936) 20-11-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Ramón Molina (1904-1938) 19-3-1938 Andorra
 Br Carlos Moncho Montaner (1868-1936) 3-9-1936: Tortosa
 Fr Jesús Montero Carrión (1887-1936) 10-8-1936: Madrid
 Fr Inocencio Muñoz Aguilera (1895-1936) 14-8-1936: Málaga
 Br Joaquín Noguera Martínez (1873-1936) 22-8-1936: Madrid
 Mr José Oortiz Calvo (1911-1936) 8-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr José Palacio Molina (1865-1936) 19-8-1936: Alcalahí

 Br Félix Palacios (1877-1936) 27-7-1936: Toledo
 Fr Miguel Pardo De Donlebún (1881-1936) 9-8-1936: Barcelona
 Fr Luis Perera Canogia (1865-1936) 4-10-1936: Valencia
 Fr José Pedromingo Cotayna (1904-1936) 6-12-1936: Guadalajara
 Br José Rallo Pascual (1863-1936) 24-8-1936: Barcelona
 Fr José Rodríguez De La Torre (1877-1936) 5-10-1936: Málaga
 Mr Gregorio Ruiz Rodríguez (1911-1936) 5-9-1936: Santander
 Fr José Ruiz Goyo (1897-1936) 5-9-1936: Santander
 Fr José Ruiz Pimentel (1887-1936) 15-10-1936: Málaga
 Mr Nicolás Serrano Fernández (1910-1936) 5-9-1936: Santander
 Br José Serres Borrás (1890-1936) 17-9-1936: Barcelona
 Br José Simón Cascales (1873-19:36) 14-8-1936: Valencia
 Fr Pedro Trullás Claramunt (1867-1936) 25-7-1936: Barcelona
 Br José María Valiente Trigueros (1894-1936) 8-11-1936: Madrid
 Fr Ramón Vendrell Vives (1865-1936) 7-8-1936: Tarragona
 Br Ignacio Vila March (1858-1936) 26-9-1936: Barcelona
 Fr José María Vives Castellet (1882-1936) 3-10-1936: Tarragona
 Br Francisco Vives Masses (1898-1936) 15-9-1936: Barcelona
 Fr José Antonio Yáñez González (1870-1936) 14-8-1936: Gijón

Of course, the Spanish Jesuits – many on the side of Franco – killed in the 1930s by the anti-clerical Left don't fit conveniently into the "peace and justice" morality play. Neither do those who died at the hands of Communists in Europe and Asia. Here's a list of them:

 Fr Daniel Dajani (1906-1946) 4-3-1946: Albania
 Fr Giovanni Fausti (1899-1946) 4-3-1946: Albania
 Br Gjon Pantaljia (1887-1947) 31-1--1947: Albania
 Fr Ndoc (Antonio) Saraci (1875-1947) 3-5-1947: Albania
 Fr Zef Saraci (1884-1954) 16-9-1954: Albania
 Fr Antonín Zgarbíik (1913-1965) 22-1-1965: Bohemia
 Mr Izidor Bistrovic (1949-1969) 4-12-1969: Croatia
 Fr Franjo Bortas (1903-1947) 7-6-1947: Croatia
 Fr Josip Müller (1893-1945) 28-11-1945: Croatia
 Fr Peter Perica (1881-1944) 25-10-1944: Croatia
 Fr Joze Bric (1907-1945) 21-11-1945: Slovenia
 Bp Lambert Ehrlich (1878-1942) 26-5-1942: Slovenia
 Fr Martin Meglik (1871-1945) 22-2-1945: Slovenia
 Fr Benjamin Jakab (1903-1950) 5-7-1950: Hungary
 Fr Ferenc Kajdi (1884- 1945?) ?-?-1945: Hungary
 Fr Antal Laskay (1909-1945?) ?-?-1945?
 Fr Józef Vid (1898-1952) 18-10-1952: Hungary
 Fr Benediktas Andruska (1884-1951) ?-?-1941: Lithuania
 Fr Joannes Peeperkorn (1898-1947?) ?-?-1947: Lithuania
 Fr Jazeps Püdans (1903-1942) 15-6-1942: Lithuania
 Fr Tadeusz Chabrowski (1909-1941) 9-1-1941: Poland
 Fr Alfons Czyzewski (1897-1953) 16-11-1953: Poland
 Br Kajetan Górski (1879-1942) ?-?-1942: Poland
 Fr Antoni Grzybowski (1904-1943) 20-10-1943: Poland
 Fr Jan Haniewski (1873-1942) ?-2-1942: Poland
 Br Jakub Jagusz (1872-1942) ?-7-1942: Poland
 Fr Kazimierz Konopka (1879-1941) 26-6-1941: Poland
 Fr Mariusz Skibniewski (1881-1939) 28-9-1939: Poland
 Fr Stanislaw Wnek (1859-1944) 27-4-1944: Poland
 Fr Waclaw Zaborowski (1904-1958) 14-5-1958: Poland
 Fr Cornel Chira (1904-1953) 20-8-1953: Romania
 Mr Xavier Robert (1912-?) ?-?-?: China
 Fr Beda Chang (Tsan-) Cheng-Min (1905-1951) 11-11-1951: China
 Fr Joseph Hu Shih-Chao (1908-?) ?-?-?: China
 Fr Andrés Li Shu-Pei (1913-?) ?-?-?: China
 Fr Peter T'Ang Kai-Shan (1906-1957) ?-?-1957: China
 Fr Louis Téteau (1874-1952) 4-5-1952: China
 Fr Antony Wang Che(1912-1953) 17-9-1953: China
 Br Laurentius Chin Lin-Shen (1915-?) ?-?-?: China
 Fr Chrysostomus Chang Szu-Ch'Ien (1910-1961?) ?-?-1961?: China
 Fr Petrus Chang Chin-Shan (1903-1967) ?-?-1967: China
 Fr Stephanus Chou Ju-Yüe (1901-1966?) ?-?-1966?: China
 Fr Aloysius Chu Kuang-Chung (1906-1968) ?-?-1968: China
 Fr Paulus Cheng Wei-Hsien (1903-1970?) ?-?-1970? : China
 Fr Francis-Xavier Chu Shu-Teh (1913-1983) 28-12-1983: China
 Fr Josephus Hsü Ching-Fang (1914-?) ?-?-?: China
 Br Laurentius Ts'Ao Chin-Teh (1893-?) China

Any accounting of Jesuit martyrs of the 20th century would note the scores who died in Dachau and Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.

And a balanced and thorough list would note among the victims of dictatorial regimes not only the six who tragically gave their lives in El Salvador in 1989, but dozens slain across Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Here's a list:

 Fr Luis Espinal Camps (1932-1980) 22-3-1980: Bolivia
 Fr João Bosco Penido Burnier (1917-1976) 12-10-1976: Brazil
 Br Vicente Cañas Costa (1939-1987) 6-4-1987: Brazil
 Fr Sergio Restrepo Jaramillo (1939-1989) 1-6-1989: Colombia
 Fr Rutilio Grande García (1928-1977) 12-3-1977: El Salvador
 Fr Ignacio Ellacuría Beascoechea (1930-1989) 16-11-1989: El Salvador
 Fr Amando López Quintana (1936-1989) 16-11-1989: El Salvador
 Fr Joaquín López y López (1918-1989) 16-11-1989: El Salvador
 Fr Ignacio Martín Baró (1942-1989) 16-11-1989: El Salvador
 Fr Segundo Montes Mozo (1933-1989) 16-11-1989: El Salvador
 Fr Juan Ramón Moreno Pardo (1933-1989) 16-11-1989: El Salvador
 Fr Carlos Pérez Alonso (1936-1981?) 2-8-1981?: Guatemala
 Fr Bernard Darke (1925-1979) 14-7-1979: Guyana
 Fr Godofredo Atingal (1922-1981) 13-4-1981: Philippines
 Br Nicolas De Glos (1911-1976) 23-5-1976: Chad
 Br Alfredo Pérez Lobato (1937-1973) 1-12-1973: Chad
 Br John Joseph Conway (1920-1977) 6-2-1977: Zimbabwe
 Fr Desmond Donovan (1927-1978?) 15?-1?-1978? : Zimbabwe
 Br Bernhard Lisson (1909-1978) 27-6-1978: Zimbabwe
 Fr Gerhard Pieper (1940-1978) 26-12-1978: Zimbabwe
 Fr Gregor Richert (1930-1978) 27-6-1978: Zimbabwe
 Fr Christopher Shepherd-Smith (1943-1977) 6-2-1977: Zimbabwe
 Fr Martin Thomas (1932-1977) 6-2-1977: Zimbabwe
 Fr Silvio Alvés Moreira (1941-1985) 30-10-1985: Mozambique
 Fr João de Deus Gonçalves Kamtedza (1930-1985) 30-10-1985: Mozambique
 Fr Raymond A. Adams (1935-1989) 12-11-1989: Ghana
 Fr Jean de Boisséson (1910-1988) 29-5-1988: Madagascar
 Fr Patrick Gahizi (1946-1994) 7-4-1994: Rwanda
 Fr Chrysologue Mahame (1927-1994) 7-4-1994: Rwanda
 Fr Innocent Rutagambwa (1948-1994) 7-4-1994: Rwanda
 Bp Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo (1926-1996) 29-10-1996: Zaire
 Fr Alban De Jerphanion (1901-1976) 14-3-1976: Lebanon
 Fr Louis Dumas (1901-1975) 25-10-1975: Lebanon
 Fr Nicolas Kluiters (1940-1985) 14-3-1985: Lebanon
 Fr André Masse (1940-1987) 24-9-1987: Lebanon
 Mr Richard Michael Fernando (1970-1996) 17-10-1996: Cambodia
 Fr Thomas Anchanikal (1951-1997) 27-10-1997: India
 Fr Thomas E. Gafney (1932-1997) 14-12-1997: India
 Fr Mathew Mannaparambil (1938-1980) 7-3-1980: India
 Fr Francis Louis Martinsek (1912-1979) 24-3-1979: India
 Fr Herman Rasschaert (1922-1964) 24-3-1964: India
 Fr Eugene John Hebert (1923-1990) 15-8-1990: Sri Lanka
 Fr Tarcisio Dewanto 1965-1999 9-9-99: Dili, East Timor
 Fr Karl Albrecht 1929-1999 11-9-99: East Timor

We should remember all the Jesuits who have died, in the words of Company magazine, "for love of God and their fellow human beings." The sacrifice of so many should not be forgotten so ideologues of the Left can exploit the memories of a few.