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Chris Byrd / CNS | 12.28.2020
NEW YORK (CNS) Many people are familiar with the life story of St. Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.
A vocal opponent of the excesses committed by his nation s military, he was slain by a right-wing gunman March 24, 1980, while saying Mass. He was canonized by Pope Francis in 2018.
Though he s often called the Oscar Romero of his native land, the biography of Bishop Juan José Gerardi Conedera, an auxiliary bishop of Guatemala City, may be less well known. Yet his fate was equally tragic and his prophetic martyrdom equally honorable.
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