A soldier with a bomb sniffing dog inspects the area around the alter at San Salvador's Plaza Salvador del Mundo - site of the martyred Archbishop Romero's beatification mass. No violence was reported at Saturdsy's event. El Salvador celebrated the ceremony and mass announcing the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero. The Archbishop was slain at the alter of his Church of the Divine Providence by a right wing gunman in 1980. Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Chavez, and spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations a
A soldier with a bomb sniffing dog inspects the area around the alter at San Salvador's Plaza Salvador del Mundo - site of the martyred Archbishop Romero's beatification mass. No violence was reported at Saturdsy's event. El Salvador celebrated the ceremony and mass announcing the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero. The Archbishop was slain at the alter of his Church of the Divine Providence by a right wing gunman in 1980. Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Chavez, and spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. Romero was assassinated while offering Mass on March 24, 1980.
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