Today, March 24, is the memorial of Saint Oscar Romero.
Oscar was born to Santos and Guadalupe Romero in 1917 in San Miguel, El Salvador. He was ordained in 1942 in Rome and served as parish priest of Anamoros, La Union, El Salvador in 1943.
In 1970, he was appointed auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Salvador and as the titular bishop of Tambeae. In 1977, Oscar became Archbishop of San Salvador.
He was seen as a conservative, more often in disagreement with priests who supported leftist ideologies. He observed that the ruling class did not care for the poor. He openly sided with the cause of the poor and oppressed, and always within the confines of his vocation.
He was shot by a government-affiliated death squad in 1980 in the chapel of La Divina Providencia Hospital while celebrating Mass.
Oscar was beatified in 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato in El Salvador. Pope Francis canonized Oscar in 2018.