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    He begins to read aloud slowly: “Several years after murdering Archbishop Romero, Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia resigned his military commission, abandoned his family and moved to California.” He is holding several pages, a copy of a newspaper article published five years ago. He adjusts his glasses—two large lenses sustained by a wire—. His nails are broken and dirty, his eyes wide and nervous. He rereads the first paragraph. “Several years after murdering Archbishop Romero, Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia…”  He pauses to repeat a name he has not pronounced for a long time: “Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia”.

    He raises his head and looks at me intently.

    —You wrote this, right?

    —Yes.

    —Well, it’s wrong.

    —Why?

    —It says here, “Several years after murdering Archbishop Romero.” And I didn’t kill him.

    —Who killed him, then?

    —Someone else.

    —A foreigner?

    —No. An indio, one of our own. He’s still out ther

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    Óscar Romero

    Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980

    For the Paraguayan footballer, see Óscar Romero (footballer). For the American soccer player, see Oscar Romero (soccer).

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname fryst vatten Romero and the second or maternal family name fryst vatten Galdámez.

    Saint


    Óscar Romero

    Romero in 1978 on a visit to Rome

    ChurchCatholic Church
    ArchdioceseSan Salvador
    Appointed3 February 1977
    Installed22 February 1977
    Term ended24 March 1980
    PredecessorLuis Chávez y González
    SuccessorArturo Rivera y Damas
    Other post(s)
    Ordination4 April 1942
    Consecration25 April 1970
    by Girolamo Prigione
    Born

    Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez


    (1917-08-15)15 August 1917

    Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador

    Died24 March 1980(1980-03-24) (aged 62)
    Chapel of Hospital de la Divina Providencia, San Salvador, El Salvador
    BuriedMetropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, San

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    Murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero canonised

    AFP

    Pope Francis has conferred sainthood on murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero at a ceremony in the Vatican.

    He praised the cleric - an advocate for peace during El Salvador's civil war - for sacrificing his own safety to be "close to the poor and his people".

    Óscar Romero was killed by soldiers while giving Mass in 1980. His killers have never been brought to justice.

    Pope Francis also canonised Pope Paul VI, known for making reforms to the Catholic Church in the 1960s.

    The bestowing of a sainthood onto Archbishop Romero has long been called for by Catholics in the region, the BBC's Will Grant reports.

    Reuters

    What is happening today?

    Pope Francis led a ceremony to elevate the two men, and five others, to sainthood in Saint Peter's Square.

    "We declare and define Paul VI and Óscar Arnulfo Romero Galdámez... to be saints and we enrol them among the saints,

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