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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Some thought this day would never arrive. Others hoped and some always knew it would.
On May 23, the Catholic Church, beatified Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass, just a day after pleading and ordering soldiers to stop killing innocent civilians.
His homilies often pleaded for better conditions for the poor, for a stop to the escalating violence in the country and for brotherhood among those whose divisions ultimately led to a 12-year conflict.
He's not a symbol of division but one of peace, Cardinal Amato said.
In a message sent Saturday on the occasion of the beatification, Pope Francis said that Archbishop Romero "built the peace with the power of love, gave testimony of the faith with his life."
Proof of that is the shirt he died in, soaked in blood, after an assassin's single bullet took his life. Eight deacons carried the blood-stained shirt, now a relic, to the altar in a glass case. Others decorated it with flowers and candles during the Saturday ceremony. Several priests reached out to touch the case and later made the sign of the cross.
...For 81-year-old Salvadoran Gregoria Martinez de Jimenez, the beatification marked the official recognition of something she has known all along: "We finally have a saint who is one of ours," she said as tears flowed.
"He was a duplicate of Jesus," added her daughter Maria Elena Jimenez Martinez, 44. Both women attended Archbishop Romero's funeral, where smoke bombs went off and shots were fired. More than elation, they showed happiness mixed with sorrow that remains from a painful time.
CNS STORY Blessed Romero another brilliant star belonging to church of Americas
This is a good thing. He was remarkable.
And this is From Madness to Hope:
http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/file/ElSalvador-Report.pdf
On May 23, the Catholic Church, beatified Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass, just a day after pleading and ordering soldiers to stop killing innocent civilians.
His homilies often pleaded for better conditions for the poor, for a stop to the escalating violence in the country and for brotherhood among those whose divisions ultimately led to a 12-year conflict.
He's not a symbol of division but one of peace, Cardinal Amato said.
In a message sent Saturday on the occasion of the beatification, Pope Francis said that Archbishop Romero "built the peace with the power of love, gave testimony of the faith with his life."
Proof of that is the shirt he died in, soaked in blood, after an assassin's single bullet took his life. Eight deacons carried the blood-stained shirt, now a relic, to the altar in a glass case. Others decorated it with flowers and candles during the Saturday ceremony. Several priests reached out to touch the case and later made the sign of the cross.
...For 81-year-old Salvadoran Gregoria Martinez de Jimenez, the beatification marked the official recognition of something she has known all along: "We finally have a saint who is one of ours," she said as tears flowed.
"He was a duplicate of Jesus," added her daughter Maria Elena Jimenez Martinez, 44. Both women attended Archbishop Romero's funeral, where smoke bombs went off and shots were fired. More than elation, they showed happiness mixed with sorrow that remains from a painful time.
CNS STORY Blessed Romero another brilliant star belonging to church of Americas
This is a good thing. He was remarkable.
And this is From Madness to Hope:
http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/file/ElSalvador-Report.pdf
