Friends of Salvadorean Roman Catholic Archbishop Romero gearing for canonisation 35 years after deat

Описание: (12 Oct 2018) Days before the canonisation of the late Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero to become a saint, residents and old friends in his hometown of San Salvador say they feel immensely blessed to have known him.
A Salvadoran woman whose unexpected recovery from a life-threatening condition was deemed a miracle paved the way for his canonisation.
Romero, already known to many as "Saint Romero of the Americas", was beloved among the working class and poor for defending them against repression by the army.
He was equally loathed by conservative sectors who saw him as aligned with leftist causes as the country descended into a 1980-1992 civil war.
Crucial to Romero's canonisation, scheduled for Oct. 14, was Pope Francis' approval of a miracle attributed to his intervention in the case of Cecilia Maribel Flores.
Flores underwent an emergency cesarean section for her third child and was diagnosed with an infection that left her in a coma.
Suffering from internal hemorrhaging and with her kidneys on the verge of collapse, she was not expected to survive.
Her husband prayed to Romero for intervention.
The next morning, Flores began improving and soon made a full recovery.
Romero was previously beatified, a necessary step before canonisation, in May 2015 in an emotional ceremony in the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador.
The gunman who killed him was contracted by right-wing death squads.

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