Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, a former collaborator of Romero, told EFE: "We have heard a whole message about who this man of God was, what reality he had to face, with what courage he did it, like Jesus Christ." He added that this reminder of Romero's legacy is to "regain energy, enthusiasm, and also commitment. There is much to be done for what he dreamed of (for El Salvador) to become a reality." The faithful, including priests and nuns, held the "procession of the light" in the aforementioned plaza, holding candles and listening to recordings of homilies from "The voice of the voiceless," as Romero is called. They also sang songs in his memory and chanted the slogan "Monseñor Romero lives, and walks with his people," ending with a mass and a cultural event with traditional music. The Fourth Instruction Court of San Salvador ordered in May 2017 the reopening of the case for the homicide of Monseñor Romero and in October 2018 ordered the Attorney General's Office (FGR) to carry out a new investigation. Romero was assassinated by a sniper on March 24, 1980, while celebrating mass in the small chapel of La Divina Providencia cancer hospital, in San Salvador. The 1993 UN Truth Commission report pointed to Army Major Roberto D'Aubuisson as the intellectual author, founder of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right), party with which he was a deputy and presidential candidate. It also pointed to Captains Álvaro Saravia and Eduardo Ávila, as well as Fernando Sagrera and Mario Molina, as having participated in the planning and execution of the assassination. San Romero was canonized in Rome on October 14, 2018, before thousands of people, after Pope Francis signed a decree that recognizes the miracle attributed to the religious. Some 200 Catholic faithful gathered this Saturday night in the capital of El Salvador to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the assassination of the archbishop and Catholic Church saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero, perpetrated in 1980 by a right-wing death squad. The "Romero supporters" gathered at the Plaza del Divino Salvador del Mundo, where Romero was beatified in 2015 before thousands of people, and remembered his legacy of defending human rights in the years before the civil war (1980-1992), which cost the lives of some 75,000 people. Once again, this commemoration has been marked by the lack of progress in the criminal process against the alleged intellectual authors of this crime after its reopening in 2017. "How important it is to have memory, without memory there is no future."
