According to Jesuits in Britain,
The Vatican has announced the date for the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran archbishop who was martyred in 1980. Speaking in El Salvador, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, said that Romero will be beatified in San Salvador on 23 May, the eve of Pentecost.
Archbishop Paglia is the postulator of Archbishop Romero’s cause. The beatification ceremony will be presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints, according to the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire.
Pope Francis officially declared on 3 February 2015 that Archbishop Oscar Romero died a martyr’s death, ‘killed in hatred of the Faith’, and the announcement of his beatification was widely expected. During the press conference confirming Romero’s martyrdom, it was also announced that the cause for canonisation of his friend, the Jesuit Rutillio Grande SJ, who was assassinated on his way to celebrate Mass in El Paisnal in the Aguilares parish, has been opened.
Good news indeed.
