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May 22, 2015

El Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, Killed by U.S.-Backed Death Squad, to Be Beatified 
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And El Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero will be beatified Saturday in
San Salvador in a step toward sainthood. Archbishop Romero was known as
the "voice of the voiceless," an advocate for the poor and leading
critic of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military government. He was killed
March 24, 1980, by members of a U.S.-backed death squad while delivering
mass at a hospital chapel. His assassination was ordered by Salvadoran
military officer Roberto D'Aubuisson, a graduate of the U.S.-run School
of the Americas. An envoy of Pope Francis will lead his beatification
before an expected audience of hundreds of thousands of people.

 

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