Tribute in El Salvador Monsignor Romero
Written by Raimundo López
San Salvador, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) Salvadorian pay tribute to the martyred bishop Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero met today to 31 years of his assassination by death squads during the military dictatorships that suffered the nation.
The tributes to Romero began last Saturday with the pilgrimage of lanterns, a popular event that is taking the character of national tradition.
are scheduled for this Thursday vigils, placing of wreaths by social and religious organizations and other demonstrations of affection from the people ordinary people.
Romero is revered for his advocacy of human rights during the military dictatorship, a strong denunciation of the repression that caused frequent death threats.
Asked by reporters about these dangers, prophetically predicted: "If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadoran people."
threats became reality at the end of the afternoon of March 24, 1980, when he was killed by a gunshot to the heart when offered in the chapel of the Divine Providence Hospital in the capital.
A Truth Commission established the United Nations in 1993 that the crime was committed by death squads led by Major Roberto DÂAubuisson, founder of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
Romero left a profound legacy of love to the poor and marginalized, accompanied by the aspirations of a just society.
the Church's mission is to identify with the poor, and finds his salvation, he wrote in a homily of November 11, 1977.
One day before the murder, Romero led a dramatic appeal to the military and police forces to stop the crackdown: "In God's name and on behalf of these suffering people whose cries rise to heaven each day more tumultuous, I beg, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression. "
On February 17, 1980, appealed to the then U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, to cease the assistance to military and police forces then.
his Government's contribution rather than favoring greater justice and peace in El Salvador undoubtedly sharpen the injustice and repression against the people organized, wrote in a letter.
Carter's response was a bitter complaint to the Vatican, biographers recalled Romero.
The Legislature passed last year declaring March 24 Day of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an initiative opposed by the rightist ARENA.
The first official tribute to his life and work took place last year, months after undertaken by President Mauricio Funes, June 1, 2009.
The United Nations declared the International Day date right to the truth about gross violations of human rights and dignity of victims.
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