El quince de agosto/August 15th
Image from ignatiansolidarity.net. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Óscar Romero! (1917-1980) An archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador who spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture, Romero was assassinated while offering mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence in 1980. He had delivered a sermon on the radio the day before in which he called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and stop carrying out the government's repressions and violations of basic human rights. 250,000 mourners attended his funeral, despite the danger. Jesuit priest John Dear called it "the largest demonstration in Salvadoran history - some say in the history of Latin America." Romero was initially considered a social conservative when he was appointed archbishop in 1977, but the assassination of his friend and fellow priest Rutilio Grande, who had called for workers' rights, several weeks after his ordinat...