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Archbishop Oscar Romero

Background

Although El Salvador declared independence from Spain in 1821, the legacy of colonialism continued throughout the twentieth century. Near-absolute power merely shifted from the Spaniards to the Salvadorans of European ancestry. Mestizos and indigenous peoples—some  95 percent of the total population were virtually serfs. A tiny aristocracy—known  as “The 14 Families”—ruled  the nation through a military commanded by mercenaries selected and paid by the richest landowners and industrialists. From 1933 - 1980, all but one president was a military dictator. Their regimes staged fraudulent elections periodically, to maintain the external pretense of democracy, but their regimes were based on repression blended with occasional reforms intended to defuse potential revolutions.

This system began to unravel in the 1970s, when previously splintered opponents of military rule united behind Jose Napoleon Duarte, leader of the Christian Democratic Party. Duarte and his broad-based reform platform were defeated in one of the most fraudulent elections in recorded history. Subsequent protests were crushed, and Duarte was exiled. These events convinced many—peasants  and middle class alike—that reforms could not be achieved democratically when democ

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Óscar Romero

Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980

For the Paraguayan footballer, see Óscar Romero (footballer). For the American soccer player, see Oscar Romero (soccer).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Romero and the second or maternal family name is Galdámez.

Saint Óscar Romero
Romero in 1978 on a visit to Rome
Church	Catholic Church
Archdiocese	San Salvador
Appointed	3 February 1977
Installed	22 February 1977
Term ended	24 March 1980
Predecessor	Luis Chávez y González
Successor	Arturo Rivera y Damas
Other post(s)
Ordination	4 April 1942
Consecration	25 April 1970 by Girolamo Prigione
Born	Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1917-08-15)15 August 1917 Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador
Died	24 March 1980(1980-03-24) (aged 62) Chapel of Hospital de la Divina Providencia, San Salvador, El Salvador
Buried	Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, San Salvador
Denomination	Catholicism
Signature
Coat of arms
Feast day	24 March
Venerated in
Beatified	23 May 2015 Plaza El Salvador de Mundo, San Salvador, El Salvador by Angelo Amato, representing Pope Francis
Canonized	14 October 2018 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican&#