Saint Oscar Romero
Justice (
1980 Anno Domini A.D. ) Feast: March 24
Saints Who Exemplify the Virtues
Oscar was born to a large family in El Salvador. He studied carpentry 
🔨 before entering the minor seminary at 14 
. After studies & ordination in Rome 
he returned to his homeland, where for over 20 years he served as a pastor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero
When Romero was named Bishop of Santiago de Maria , his efforts to serve his flock brought him before the conflict between the peasants, many of whom lived in crushing poverty, & the wealthy landowners, who sought to retain their control with the help of the military.
In 1977 A.D., Oscar was named Archbishop of San Salvador . 10 days later, one of his priests who had been living among impoverished farmers 
was slain by a death squad 
. From this time, Oscar 's radio sermons 
increasingly addressed the inequality of a system that held so many in poverty & the immorality of the use of force against the innocent.
On March 23, 1980 A.D., Romero made an eloquent radio plea urging those of his flock who were serving in the military to refrain from killing unarmed civilians. The next day, while he was saying Mass 
in a hospital chapel 
he was shot dead by an assassin.
In his 2018 A.D. canonization Mass for Oscar , Pope Francis praised him as one who "left the security of the world, even his own safety, in order to give his life according to the Gospel - close to the poor & to his people."
Loving Father, through the intercession of Saint Oscar Romero , grant me a heart in union with the oppressed & the downtrodden 
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