Archbishop Oscar Romero The Making of a Martyr
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Full Title

Archbishop Oscar Romero The Making of a Martyr
Author(s)

Emily Wade Will
Edition
ISBN

9781498283564, 9781498283557, 9781498283571
Publisher

Resource Publications
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Who is Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980 while saying mass, beatified by Pope Francis in 2015, a man Latin Americans already claim as Saint Romero of America?
This biography, a Romero primer, sets out to answer this question for the general public ages fifteen up–readers who may know little about El Salvador, Romero’s homeland, or the Roman Catholic Church. Based on interviews with some of Romero’s seminary mates and siblings, this title reveals not-yet-published information to fill gaps in Romero’s first twenty-five years of life. One chapter explores the archbishop’s surprising relationship with “misguided” young adults.
The author takes painstaking effort to convey the context in which this old-school cleric emerged as an audacious voice of the voiceless. That he did so is remarkable; Vatican officials named him archbishop confident he would remain silent, rein in activism, and ruffle no status-quo feathers. How and why Romero defied expectations ranks among the most compelling faith stories of the late twentieth century.
Jose Inocencio Alas honors this work with a foreword. A former priest and colleague of Romero who narrowly survived abduction and torture by El Salvador’s notorious National Guard, Alas has exclaimed, “I hope just about everyone in the world reads this book.”

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