By
Carlos X. (reporting from San
Salvador):
I posted earlier in Spanish that Fr. Luis Ernesto
Ayala, a diocesan spokesman, told me that the San Salvador police estimated the
crowd attending Blessed Oscar Romero’s beatification at over half a
million. That information was just
confirmed to the press at the beatification site by Msgr. Rafael Urrutia, the
vice-postulator of the cause. (In a note
over at Crux, John Allen called today’s beatification the largest religious
gathering in Central American history.) Msgr. Urrutia told me that having done
the Romero beatification in a big way here in El Salvador does not reduce his
desire to see Pope Francis come to the country to canonize Romero one day. In fact, Msgr. Urrutia said, he could make it
a two-fer and beatify Fr. Rutilio Grande during the same trip. Msgr. Urrutia says he has been getting signals
from the Holy Father to get on with it (Urrutia is also the diocesan postulator
for the Rutilio Grande cause).
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