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2007-02-21 10:44:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Sure:) Oscar Romero was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González.
Follow this link and it'll tell you all about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero

2007-02-21 10:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by julie_ramrattan2003 3 · 0 0

Oscar Romero was an Archbishop in El Salvador that was brutally murdered for helping out the poor.

2007-02-21 10:50:33 · answer #2 · answered by Princess Marie 2 · 0 0

Msgr. Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González.

As archbishop, he witnessed numerous violations of human rights and began a ministry speaking out on behalf of the poor and victims of the country's civil war. Chosen to be archbishop for his conservatism, once in office his conscience led him to embrace a non-violent form of liberation theology, putting him in the line of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Like them, he was martyred for his non-violent advocacy. In 1980, he was assassinated by gunshot while consecrating the Eucharist during mass. His death provoked international outcry for human rights reform in El Salvador. After his assassination, Romero was succeeded by Msgr. Arturo Rivera y Damas.

In 1997, a cause for beatification and canonization into sainthood was opened for Romero, and Pope John Paul II bestowed upon him the title of Servant of God. The process continues.[1] He is considered by some the unofficial patron saint of the Americas and El Salvador and is often referred to as "San Romero" by the Catholic workers in El Salvador. Outside of Catholicism, Romero is honored by other religious denominations of Christendom, including the Church of England through its Common Worship. He is one of the ten 20th-century martyrs from across the world who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey, London. [2]

2007-02-21 10:49:22 · answer #3 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 0 0

A hot dog maker. Oh wait, that's Oscar Mayer. HEH HEH.

2007-02-21 10:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by CRAZAY CHEEZ 2 · 0 1

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