2024-03-25 04:57:35
Acquaintance As ‘The voice of the voiceless’, Romero spoke out in his homilies against human rights violations. Image: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images
San Romero de América’ was murdered by a far-right death squad at the ‘La Divina Providencia’ hospital in San Salvador.
People from Catholic communities in El Salvador and human rights organizations commemorated this Sunday (03/24/2024) the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, a saint of the Catholic Church – murdered in 1980 by a far-right sniper – among the processions and masses of Palm Sunday.
“In many churches the image of Monsignor Romero is enthroned and today we will also commemorate this martyrdom during the mass, which was blood with which the faith of this people was sown,” he told the agency. EFE the priest of the Santa Lucía parish, in the central town of Suchitoto, Fabio Márquez. He added that, although the Archdiocese of San Salvador began the commemoration of the assassination of Romero – known as ‘Saint Romero of America’ – on March 22, his legacy was remembered in this celebration.
Image: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images
In San Salvador, dozens of parishioners also came this Sunday to the chapel where Romero was murdered to remember his messages and works. In addition, families of people detained under the emergency regime in force in the country attended and defended the innocence of their relatives.
For its part, the Due Process Foundation (DPLF) recalled on its social networks that every March 24 commemorates the International Day of the Right to the Truth. “We commemorate the murder of Monsignor Óscar Romero, remembering his legacy of non-violence and solidarity with the most disadvantaged people and we honor those who work for justice and truth in risk contexts,” the entity indicated.
Image: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images
The death of “Saint Romero of America”
Saint Romero was murdered by a far-right death squad in the chapel of the small hospital Divine Providence, in San Salvador. Known as ‘the voice of the voiceless’, Romero spoke out in his homilies against human rights violations in the years prior to the civil war, thereby becoming a reference in the defense of the most vulnerable sectors.
The report of the United Nations Truth Commission of 1993, he pointed out that the person responsible for giving the order to assassinate Romero was Major Roberto D’Aubuisson, founder of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), a party for which he was a deputy and presidential candidate. This document also indicates that, in the planning and execution of the murder, captains Álvaro Saravia and Eduardo Ávila, as well as Fernando Sagrera and Mario Molina, among others, participated.
The annulment of a 1993 amnesty law by a ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court in 2016 allowed the reopening of this case and the processes, although with slow progress and no resolutions yet.
Romero was canonized in Rome on October 14, 2018 before thousands of people, after Pope Francis signed a decree months earlier that recognizes the miracle attributed to the religious.
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Source: DW News
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