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Beatification of Salvadoran Martyr Oscar Romero

Salvadoran Catholic priests carry a relic - The blood stained shirt - of martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero through a sea of priests. 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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Salvadoran Catholic priests carry a relic - The blood stained shirt - of martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero through a sea of priests. 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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