Will You Die for Your Faith? The Story of St. Oscar Romero - Catholic ...
Mar 24, 2025 · Pope Benedict XVI, who called Romero “a great witness of the faith” unblocked the cause for Romero’s canonization after it had been opposed by factions who feared Romero’s …
Óscar Romero - Wikipedia
Romero in 1941 Óscar Romero was born on 15 August 1917 [12] to Santos Romero and Guadalupe de Jesús Galdámez in Ciudad Barrios in the San Miguel department of El Salvador. [13] On 11 May …
Saint Oscar Romero | Biography & Death | Britannica
Saint Oscar Romero, Salvadoran Roman Catholic archbishop who was a vocal critic of the violent activities of government armed forces, right-wing groups, and leftist guerrillas involved in El …
Archbishop Oscar Romero | Kellogg Institute For International Studies
Each year since 1987 we come together for seminars, workshops, memorial services, and major addresses that help us to honor Romero’s memory and to grow by virtue of what we learn of the …
Who Was Romero? – The Archbishop Romero Trust
Who was Romero? Oscar Romero was Archbishop of San Salvador. He was assassinated on Monday March 24 th 1980 as he was celebrating Mass in the chapel of the Divine Providence cancer hospital …
March 24, 1980: Archbishop Romero Assassinated
Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador was assassinated by U.S.-backed death squads.
Sanctity and martyrdom of St. Oscar Romero - omnesmag.com
Mar 24, 2025 · Monsignor Óscar Romero in 1978 (Archbishopric of San Salvador, Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Wikimedia commons). Salvadoran Archbishop St. Oscar Romero is a martyr of the …
Who Was Óscar Romero? Latin America’s Most Famous Martyr
May 26, 2025 · Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital, in 1980, Óscar Romero was shot to death by a member of the government’s notorious death squads while delivering mass. In the years since, …
St. Oscar Romero the Archbishop of El Salvador was Martyred while ...
Mar 24, 2025 · Over the next three years the social and political conflict in El Salvador intensified with electoral fraud blocking change, and peaceful protest being met with massacres and death squad …
Stories of Resistance: Monsignor Óscar Romero, El Salvador’s Bishop …
Mar 21, 2025 · US-trained death squads were killing roughly 800 people a month. And Monsignor Óscar Romero — Archbishop of San Salvador, the bishop of the poor — would not shy from denouncing …