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St. Oscar Anulfo Romero

Riverhead Catholics to celebrate first Salvadoran saint with procession and Mass Sunday at St. John the Evangelist

by Oct 20, 2018
The Salvadoran-American community is celebrating the canonization of St. Oscar Anulfo Romero, an archbishop martyred in 1980. Romero was saying Mass a cancer hospital when he was shot and killed. He had been a spiritual leader who worked for social justice and peace in the war-torn country.