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\u00a0In 1977, San Salvador welcomed a new archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. \u00a0Three years later, the archbishop was killed by a single bullet shot from the backseat of a car parked outside the chapel where he was celebrating Mass. \u00a0Romero, having received countless death threats, no longer allowed concelebrating priests or altar servers to accompany him in the sanctuary. \u00a0He did not want the bullet meant for him to kill someone else accidentally.<\/div>\n
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Chapel where Archbishop Romero was murdered while celebrating Mass<\/div>\n

During the times of Oscar Romero, Catholics gathering for a Bible study were considered subversive since the catechists were teaching peasants how to read and write. \u00a0Any criticism of the ruling party earned one a death sentence. \u00a0In its attempt to fight communist guerrillas that were present in El Salvador, the government killed over 70,000 innocent civilians including hundreds of priests, sisters (including four American church women, three of them nuns) and thousands of catechists. \u00a0The murder by right-wing government forces of his good friend Father Rutilio Grande marked an awakening in Archbishop Romero. \u00a0The government\u2019s unwillingness to investigate the murder caused Romero to speak against the injustices committed by the country\u2019s rulers. \u00a0His desire to uphold the equality of all before God regardless of social status was not appreciated by the powerful.<\/p>\n

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Archbishop Romero\u2019s tomb at the cathedral of San Salvador<\/div>\n

The day before he was martyred for hatred of the faith, Archbishop Romero made an emotional plea to the men of the army, National Guard, police and military. \u00a0During his Sunday homily at the cathedral he said, \u201cyou are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, \u2018thou shalt not kill.\u2019 \u00a0No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God\u2026. It is time you\u2026 obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. \u00a0The Church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination. \u00a0In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.\u201d \u00a0The reaction was applause.<\/p>\n

With these words Romero had crossed a line. \u00a0For the government, he was calling for insubordination. \u00a0For him, he was proclaiming the Gospel. \u00a0In the same way Jesus Christ did not intend to enter politics but was executed with the political charge of \u201cking of the Jews,\u201d Archbishop Romero, who did not intend to enter politics, was accused of politicking while he was simply proclaiming the Gospel.<\/p>\n

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Romero\u2019s enemies accused him of ascribing to liberation theology, yet the liberation Romero preached is the freedom enjoyed by the children of God, \u201ca liberation that has, above all else, respect for the dignity of the person, hope for humanity\u2019s common good, and the transcendence that looks before all to God and only from God derives its hope and its strength.\u201d \u00a0Beatified this last May 23rd in San Salvador, Romero certainly died a martyr. \u00a0He was killed by fellow Catholics who did not want to be challenged by the Gospel and preferred to silence him. \u00a0They may have silenced him, but his prophetic voice has persevered and Blessed Romero, in the words of Saint John Paul II, now \u201cbelongs to the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The shirt Romero was wearing when killed is presented as a relic during his beatification<\/div>\n
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Halo that appeared around the sun during Romero\u2019s beatification in San Salvador<\/div>\n

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About 500,000 people gathered for Romero\u2019s beatification<\/div>\n
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