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Carmelitas en El Salvador acogen reliquias de "un místico y un profeta", Juan de la Cruz y Romero
In brief
Carmelite Missionary Sisters of Saint Teresa hosted relics of Saint John of the Cross and Saint Oscar Romero at a chapel in El Salvador. The small bone fragment of Saint John of the Cross visited the same chapel where Oscar Romero was killed in 1980.
Sister Tránsito de la Cruz Valdez Crespín described the meeting as an encounter between a mystic and a prophet. She noted the small size of the relic while expressing the spiritual significance of its presence at the site.
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