Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero to be beatified May 23

http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/report-oscar-romero-be-beatified-may-23
Joshua J. McElwee | Mar. 11, 2015

Rome

Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, the murdered prelate of the people whose sainthood cause languished under previous popes but has been fast-tracked by Pope Francis, is to be beatified May 23 in San Salvador.

News of the date of the ceremony -- which puts Romero one step away from sainthood -- was first made in a report Wednesday morning by the Italian daily Avvenire, which is published by the country's bishops' conference.

The ceremony will be in Plaza Divino Salvador del Mundo, Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the chief promoter of the archbishop's sainthood cause, said at a news conference Wednesday in San Salvador. The archbishop said Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, would celebrate the Mass.