Very special guest

How an Amstetten family received a visit from a saint

Óscar Romero visited the Brandstetter family, who still like to talk about the special meeting some 50 years later.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Arzobispado de San Salvador, Wolfgang Zarl)

Who can claim to have been visited by a saint? The Brandstetter family from Amstetten can. What led to this meeting, what they served him for dinner and what they remember in particular - the Mostviertel locals remember their very special guest.

He is regarded as one of the greatest shining lights of the Roman Catholic Church and stood up for social justice in his home country of El Salvador like no other. Óscar Romero ultimately paid for his fight against the military dictatorship at the time with his life in 1980. The man who was canonized by Pope Francis in 2018 even ended up in the Mostviertel region at one point during his work. More precisely: to the Brandstetter family in Amstetten. Romero really wanted to visit them.