Martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero is to be beatified on May 23 in San Salvador.
The ceremony will be in Plaza Divino Salvador del Mundo, said Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the chief promoter of the archbishop’s sainthood cause.
Archbishop Paglia called the beatification a gift for the world, but particularly for the people of El Salvador.
In February, Pope Francis paved the way for Archbishop Romero’s beatification when he formally decreed that the prelate was assassinated as a martyr for the Catholic faith.
Shot dead while celebrating Mass in 1980, the archbishop has long been considered a saint by many in Latin America, but the official Vatican process had lingered for years.