Editing Óscar Romero (section)

==Early life==
[[File:MOAR 3.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Romero in 1941]]
Óscar Romero was born on 15 August 1917<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GOGV41Rc6wC&pg=PA220 |title=The A to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations |author1=Edward S. Mihalkanin |author2=Robert F. Gorman |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-0810868748 |page=220 |via=books.google.com |year=2009}}</ref> to Santos Romero and Guadalupe de Jesús Galdámez in [[Ciudad Barrios]] in the [[San Miguel Department (El Salvador)|San Miguel department]] of [[El Salvador]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2XVHycXikcC&pg=PA181 |title=A Shot in the Cathedral |author=Mario Bencastro |publisher=[[Arte Público Press]] |isbn=978-1558851641 |page=182 |year=1996}}</ref> On 11 May 1919, at the age of one, Romero was baptized into the Catholic Church by the priest Cecilio Morales.<ref name="Brockman1989">{{cite book|author=James R. Brockman|title=Romero: A Life|year=1989 |publisher=Orbis Books |isbn=9780883446522 |url=https://archive.org/details/romerolife0000broc}}</ref>

Romero entered the local public school, which offered only grades one through three. When finished with public school, Romero was privately tutored by a teacher, Anita Iglesias,<ref name="Brockman1982">{{cite book|author=James R. Brockman|title=The Word Remains: A Life of Oscar Romero|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWhaAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Orbis Books|isbn=978-0-88344-364-4|page=31}}</ref> until the age of thirteen.<ref name="Brockman2005">{{cite book|author=James R. Brockman|title=Romero: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYLZAAAAMAAJ&q=Romero+Anita+Iglesias|year=2005|publisher=Orbis Books|isbn=978-1-57075-599-6|page=34|quote=The office was in the Romero home on the plaza, and the Romero children delivered letters and telegrams in the town. ... After that his parents sent him to study under a teacher named Anita Iglesias until he was twelve or thirteen.}}</ref> During this time Romero's father trained him in carpentry.<ref name="Royal2000">{{cite book|author=Robert Royal|title=The Catholic martyrs of the twentieth century: a comprehensive world history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cxsAAAAIAAJ&q=father+Santos,+had+been+training+Romero+in+carpentry.|year=2000|publisher=Crossroad Pub.|isbn=978-0-8245-1846-2|page=279}}</ref> Romero showed exceptional proficiency as an apprentice. His father wanted to offer his son the skill of a trade, because in El Salvador studies seldom led to employment,<ref>Wright, Scott (26 February 2015). "Family". ''Oscar Romero and the Communion of Saints: A Biography''. Orbis Books. {{ISBN|978-1-60833-247-2}}. "Most children never had the opportunity or the means to even consider [a vocation such as a priesthood]. At least that was his father's belief, and for that reason, he sent his son to learn a trade." Retrieved 27 December 2015.</ref> however, Romero broached the idea of studying for the priesthood, which did not surprise those who knew him.<ref name="liberators" />