This Saturday August 15th 2009 marks the anniversary of his birthday. Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born in Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel in 1917.
was the second of eight children, his father called Santos and her mother Guadalupe. They were a humble and modest family.
killed died March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass at 6:15. pm in the chapel of Divine Providence Hospital in San Salvador, where he was home within three years of his ministry as archbishop.
"The word of Monsignor Romero has not lost. His homilies we continue to question and demand, we continue to give encouragement and hope," reads the foreword to the book: every day with Monsignor Romero.
In El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, the constitutional president elected on March 15, 2009, as speech the same day gave his mandate to Archbishop Romero. He did this publicly on the night of day that first comes to the leftist FMLN executive in the country.
"Persecution is something needed in the church, you know why? Because the truth is always pursued. Jesus Christ said: if persecuted me, they will persecute you .
And so, when one day he asked Pope Leo XII, that intelligence wonderful beginning of our century, what are the letters that distinguish the true Catholic Church, the Pope said and the four known: one, holy, catholic and apostolic. dd to others - Pope tells -. pursued. Can not live the church is fulfilling its duty without being persecuted "(Homily May 29, 1977, I-II p. 73)
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