Murdered Salvadoran priest Oscar Romero to be made a saint

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Murdered Salvadoran priest Óscar Romero to be made a saint

Pope Francis approves miracle attributed to former archbishop of San Salvador

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Wed 7 Mar 2018 12.36 GMT

Pope Francis has cleared the way for Óscar Romero, the Salvadoran priest who championed the struggles of poor and dispossessed people and was murdered by a rightwing death squad, to be made a saint.

The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Francis had approved a miracle attributed to Romero, meaning the former archbishop of San Salvador could be canonised early next year.

The move follows longstanding efforts to block Romero’s canonisation from conservatives within the church who opposed his association with liberation theology.

Francis began the process of declaring Romero a saint soon after becoming pope. About 250,000 people attended Romero’s beatification ceremony in San Salvador in May 2015.

Romero was shot through the heart by a sniper while celebrating mass in a hospital chapel on 24 March 1980, a day after he called on the military to stop killing innocent civilians in El Salvador’s dirty war. Numerous death threats had been made against him.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/07/oscar-romero-el-salvador-priest-to-be-made-a-saint-pope-francis

[newcriminal]

1. He walked the walk.

[nil desperandum]

2. I am

a non-believer, but I have great respect for these men who speak out against a dangerous authority in pursuit of justice for their people. I read the following about about the process:


The problem is that in order to be beatified, a person needs one miracle performed by God in response to prayers directed to the candidate, unless the person is a martyr. If you are a martyr, no miracle is required for beatification. A miracle is also required for canonization.

Thus a regular saint requires two miracles, while a martyr requires only one. Declaring a person a martyr eliminates the need for one miracle.

Seems a bit tortured as it relies on miracles or martyrdom and someone must classify the qualifications for each category...

[Iggo]

3. What were his three magic tricks?

EDIT: I see he only needs one. So what was it?