Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born on August 15, 1917 in Ciudad Barrios, a Salvadoran mountain town near the Honduran border. He was the second of seven children of Guadalupe de Jesús Goldámez and Santos Romero, who worked as a telegrapher. His family didn't have running water in their small home, and the children had sleep on the floor. Since his parents could not afford to continue Oscar’s education til the age of twelve, they apprenticed him to a carpenter. Oscar immediately showed his passion as a craftsman, but he was already determined to become an apprentice of a carpenter. He entered the minor seminary in San Miguel at the age of thirteen. He was later promoted to the national seminary in San Salvador and completed his studies at the Gregorian University in Rome then he received a Licentiate in Theology.
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