Tens of thousands more Salvadorans stayed up all night at home to watch it on giant TV screens outside the San Salvador cathedral where Romero's remains are entombed. San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was gunned down by right-wing soldiers on March 24, 1980 while he was saying mass at Hospital Divina Providencia in San Salvador. Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, was murdered as he celebrated Mass on March 24, 1980, in a hospital chapel. Here, Pope Francis poses with youth from the U.S.-based immigrant rights National TPS Alliance group. Paul is also very important to another pope, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, whom Paul made a cardinal in 1977.

Source: CBC News October 14, 2018 11:03 UTC