Assassinated left-wing Archbishop on the road to sainthood

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March 31, 2005
Times
From Richard Owen in Rome



A MURDERED Latin American prelate once regarded by the Vatican as dangerously left wing is to be put on the road to sainthood by the Pope.

The move to beatify Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador comes exactly 25 years after he was shot in the chest at the altar while celebrating Mass at the height of his country’s bloody civil war.

Senior Roman Catholic officials in Rome and San Salvador will announce on Saturday that a “beatification dossier” is being opened for Romero.

Beatification, which confers the title “Blessed”, is the penultimate step before sainthood. A candidate must be shown to have possessed “heroic virtues” and to have been responsible for at least one posthumous miracle, usually through prayers of intercession that bring about a “medically inexplicable” cure.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1548011,00.html

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