St. Oscar Romero
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Archbishop Romero, martyr, to be made saint at Vatican ceremony Oct. 14
VATICAN CITY — After a 38-year-wait, it is now official. Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, murdered in 1980 for speaking out against military oppression, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a Vatican ceremony Oct. 14.
Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the Americas, announced the decision May 19 during a meeting with cardinals based in Rome.
Romero, long considered a saint by Catholics across the Americas, will be elevated to universal veneration at the Vatican ceremony alongside Pope Paul VI, the pontiff who first appointed him a bishop and made the fateful decision in 1977 to make him archbishop of San Salvador.
Four others -- two Italian priests and German and Spanish founders of separate women’s religious orders -- will also be made saints at the ceremony.
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