Alfonso Navarro Oviedo was a Roman Catholic priest in
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
who was shot on May 11, 1977, on the outskirts of San Salvador. He served under Archbishop
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name of Irish origin.
Etymology
The name is derived from two elements in Irish: the first, ''os'', means "deer"; the second element, ''car'', means "loving" or "friend", thus "deer-loving one" or "friend of deer" ...
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External links
REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EL SALVADOR, CHAPTER II, RIGHT TO LIFE (1978)Major Charles O. Skipper, USMC (1984)
Year of birth missing
1977 deaths
20th-century Salvadoran Roman Catholic priests
20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Catholic martyrs of El Salvador
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