Yes, he died almost instantly after being shot.
Oscar Romero was shot while saying Mass on March 24, 1980.
Oscar Romero was shot during the Consecration of a Mass he was saying at a church in/near San Salvador, El Salvador.
Oscar Romero was shot during the consecration at a Mass he was saying on March 24, 1980.
On May 11, 1919, at the age of one, Óscar Romero was baptized into the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was shot during Mass because he preached nonviolence and the end to government cruelty and torturing of citizens. He preached against the government and therefore was shot for it.
Let no one be offended because we use the divine words read at our mass to shed light on the social, political and economic situation of our people. Not to do so would be unchristian. Christ desires to unite himself with humanity, so that the light he brings from God might become life for nations and individuals.
He was shot by a member of a government supported right wing death squad while he said Mass in El Salvador.
Romero was fatally shot while celebrating Mass at a small chapel located in a hospital called "La Divina Providencia" in San Salvador on March 24, 1980.
Romero was shot while he celebrated Mass by a right-wing death squad member because he was working to get the government to stop its oppresive way of running the country and persecution of the poor.
Oscar Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador and a prominent advocate for social justice and human rights in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1980 while saying mass, and his murder was linked to his criticism of the government and his defense of the poor and oppressed. Romero was declared a martyr by the Catholic Church and was canonized as a saint in 2018.
Archbishop Romero was assassinated "one day after a sermon in which he had called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and to stop carrying out the government's repression and violations of basic human rights." [Wikipedia]
Oscar Romero was an Archbishop of the Catholic Church who was killed as he was saying Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador. This occurred on March 24, 1980 because he criticized the Revolutionary Government Junta.