Tag: Archbishop Oscar Romero
Salvadoran city remembers slain Maryknoll missionaries forty years later with reverence
CHALATENANGO, El Salvador -- On a bright and clear January afternoon, Bishop Oswaldo Escobar Aguilar walked into a cemetery and gently dusted off a...
Why we ask saints for their intercession
"I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth," said St. Therese of Lisieux, as noted in "The Final Conversations."
And so she...
A canonization’s focus on legacy and holiness
The gunman who fired the shot in El Salvador March 24, 1980, that killed San Salvador's revered Archbishop Oscar Romero while he celebrated Mass...
Salvadoran: Blessed Romero, family friend, used visits to escape horrors
Catholic News Service
SANTA TECLA, El Salvador — Leonor Chacon remembers every emotion she felt March 24, 1980, as if it were yesterday.
It started, she...