El Salvador, March 24, 1980.
Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, after praying in the chapel of ' hospital, had breakfast with the sisters. He rose in his face an expression of melancholy. The sisters lovingly asked him could accompany him. He replied with the words that Jesus spoke in the Temple, prefiguring the Passion:
- Where I go you can not come.
returned to ' Hospitalité to celebrate a memorial mass. As he spoke, after the Gospel, a red car stopped in front of the church door. It went down a killer. A shot rang out. The archbishop was hit by a bullet fragmentation, fell at the altar, under the crucifix. The collected. The blood gushing from his mouth and nostrils, dripping on the floor. He died shortly after.
When the news of the spread of the prelate, in El Salvador we wept, but they also danced.
The minds of the poor, especially farmers, was overwhelmed with grief and indignation.
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| Archbishop Romero with the campesinos. |
His funeral was held March 30, Palm Sunday. 250,000 Salvadorans found themselves in the cathedral square to give him a final farewell. And to prove that his thoughts continued to live in them.
In the crowd, while Cardinal Corripio deliver the homily, a bomb exploded. There was a shootout, the terror, the crowd. The shot came from the presidential palace, witnesses said. More than 50 people lost their lives. A woman killed her behind the altar, he stood in the crowd. humerus was quickly buried inside the cathedral full of live and deaths. Outside, around the square, snarling armored wheels of the national guard.
The Community The Hill has called the new chapel to Oscar Romero. On November 3, to understand the relevance of his teaching, dedicated to cultural meeting on Wednesday.
Don Ettore Cannavera, introduced the theme of prophecy, represented by Oscar Romero of yesterday for today.
Pierpaolo Loi, Secretary National Network Radié Resch, coordinator of the meeting, he described, in summary, the human and pastoral archbishop. He gave, Oscar Romero, a vibrant and moving biography.
Pierce presented the speakers.
Don Alberto Vitali, director of Pax Christi Italy, author of "Oscar Romero. Shepherd of Lambs and wolves. "Ed Pauline. Emma Peacock, president of the "Oscar Romero" Milan.
Pierpaolo focused on the reasons for the interest raised from the book by Don Alberto Vitali. It helps to understand the evolution of Romero without recourse to sudden jumps or metaphysical revolutionaries.
Pierce pointed out that Romero was an interpreter in the conservative direction of the Second Vatican Council and the Third Latin American Episcopal Conference. He was appointed archbishop of San Salvador by the will of the nuncio and the majority of bishops from Central America, to the satisfaction of the oligarchy.
His appointment disappointed the base communities. Yet, it was loyalty to the Church's evangelical mission to ensure that Romero became the voice of poor and oppressed peasants. La voz de los sin voz.
Archbishop, directly assisting the terrible suffering imposed on its priests and campesinos , became a prophet and martyr. Not for vocation to martyrdom, but in obedience to the Gospel. To be always on the side of God
Don Alberto Vitali has done the report illustrates the argument in his book.
El Salvador at the time of the birth of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, August 15, 1917, was, and will remain, a state dominated by large land-owning families, usurpers of the land of collective farmers. Governments had come straight from the body dominated by the military, protected in the United States which sought to consolidate their interests in the name of the Cold War and anticommunism.
I campesinos, the day, free of social and democratic rights, ignorant of Marxism. But they knew they had to survive with dignity. They were forced, to save families from poverty, to fight against oppression, expropriation and exploitation. Formed a non-violent liberation movement, supported by communities and by their priests.
Oscar grew up in a good family in a deprived environment. Religious vocation matured. He attended the seminar. He was sent to Rome where he was ordained priest on 15 August 1943.
In the first period of his pastoral activity, until 1974 he held many positions, given the scarcity of clergy. She helped the poor, living soberly, honed spirituality. Engaging in a traditional pastoral, but free from political influence, although the landlords claim to be his friends.
After Vatican II shared, unlike the conservative clergy, the pastoral letter of Archbishop Chavez against the injustice that oppressed nation. But he did it out of obedience and hierarchy because thought is not dogmatic innovations.
From 1967 to 1974 he was transferred, with the post of secretary of the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador, San Salvador. Here now revealed his radical and militant opposition to the teaching of the Jesuits in the side of the poor. He opposed the ideology and practice of the passions and the priests of the base.
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| Archbishop Oscar Romero |
His distrust of the theology of liberation turned out evident in the aftermath of the Second General Conference of Latin American Bishops, held in 1968 in Medellin, Colombia.
On June 21, 1970 he was ordained bishop . His motto was: to feel with the church.
In 1974 he was appointed to head the diocese of Santiago de Maria. He stumbled in misery and massacre of peasants and workers. He became, day after day, the pastor of a people who suffered oppression.
On June 21, 1975 in Tres Calles, the National Guard broke into the houses. Archbishop six farmers, machine gun them, brought them to pieces with machetes . Romero went to see the dead, comfort the families despair. Their crime was to belong to Christian communities in basic training to the meetings and to participate in the parish of Jiquilisco.
July 30, to massacre students at Plaza Libertad, made infamous by the Falange ( Armed Forces of Liberation War Anticommunist Elimination ). The opposition organizations reacted becoming mass political movements and popular fronts. Appeared among the guerrilla groups.
became archbishop of San Salvador in 1977, Romero wanted to know against the exploitation of the campesinos and agricultural workers. He realized that living in a country ravaged by the evils of idolatry of the capital and national security.
The government accused the Jesuits and the Church (priests bad) to be the main organizers of the peasants, in agreement with the Communists, and to foment outbreaks of guerrilla warfare.
Father Rutilio Grande, liberation theologian and friend of Romero, was a reflection on the Gospel of the promoters of the peasant communities. He was assassinated March 12, 1977 along with two companions.
Romero broke official relations with the government. He proclaimed that the liberation preached by Father Grande was inspired by faith, and leaned on Christ.
Romero took up the proposal made by some grassroots communities to celebrate one memorial mass. A new field that divided the Church. The archbishop remained firm in his decision. Opus Dei accused him of wanting a mass subversive. Sunday, March 20 more than a hundred thousand people crowded in front of the cathedral. Around Romero, all the priests of the diocese. His homily was inspired by the ministry of deliverance.
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