Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Dom Oscar Romero, Santo da América

2015; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.46525/ret.v30i1.76

2525-846X

José Artulino Besen,

Religious and Theological Studies

Resumo: O autor, apresentando com paixao a figura extraordinaria de Dom Romero, comeca evocando o momento final do seu martirio, na tarde de 24 de marco de 1980. Descreve o contexto da sua trajetoria na pequena mas superpovoada republica da America Central, El Salvador, o “pais dos 14 sobrenomes”. Retrata-o como “sacerdote e bispo a imagem de Cristo”, mostra a sua entrega total a causa dos pobres e, tambem, a sua “noite escura”, ao ver-se incompreendido ate pelo Papa. Comenta, ainda, as “duas Missas interrompidas”: a do seu martirio e a das exequias, completadas enfim pela solene Missa da beatificacao, na Praca “Salvador do mundo”, no dia 23 de maio p.p. Abstract: The author presents quite enthusiastically the outstanding personage of Bishop Romero, beginning by evoking the final moment of his martyrdom on the evening of the 24th of March of 1980. He then describes the context of his trajectory in a relatively small but overpopulated republic of Central America, El Salvador, a country with 14 surnames. His portrait as “priest and Bishop in the image of Christ” displays his pledge to the cause of the poor and also his “dark night” because he wasn’t understood even by the pope. Mention is made of the “two interrupted Masses”: one of his martyrdom and his funeral, but consummated finally by the solemn Mass of beatification on the public square “Savior of the World”, on the 23rd of May of 2015.