05 February 2015, The Tablet

For his beliefs


 
The Catholic Church decreed Oscar Romero a martyr this week, but the Church of England decided this some years ago. The former Archbishop of San Salvador is depicted as a martyr outside Westminster Abbey (right). The dean of Westminster, John Hall, told us that in the course of Robert Runcie’s enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral on 25 March 1980, news filtered through of Romero’s assassination. During the ceremony Runcie went to pray at the shrine of St
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