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...prepared to offer my blood for the redemption and resurrection of El Salvador. If God accepts the sacrifice, I hope it will be a seed of liberty and a sign of hope...
...Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames, Archbishop of San Salvador...
...humid evening in San Salvador last week, 60 worshipers gathered in the small, modern chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence for a memorial Mass. Officiating was the Archbishop of San Salvador, a small, benign-looking man with spectacles and graying hair. Quietly, he spoke for ten minutes about death and the need to dedicate life to the cause of peace and justice. Finishing his homily, he stepped to the altar and raised the chalice of Communion wine. At that moment, a lone gunman stepped up to the open door of the chapel. "We heard what sounded like an explosion...
Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, 62, was renowned as the most outspoken archbishop among Latin America's increasingly activist clergy. From his pulpit, he regularly condemned the tyranny and terrorism that have torn tiny, impoverished El Salvador apart and brought it to the verge of civil war. A comparable concern for the poor made him a beloved figure in the barrios of the cities and among the campesinos on the huge coffee and sugar plantations. Last year he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by 23 U.S. Congressmen and 118 members of the British Parliament...
...most densely populated countries in Central America, El Salvador has been caught up in a deadly spiral of violence that threatens to tear the country apart, much as it did neighboring Nicaragua. So far this year, at least 700 people have been killed-more than in all 1979. Last week was a particularly bloody one. It began with a call for a 24-hour general strike by leftists who hope to bring down the country's ruling junta. Troops and police battled guerrillas in a daylong orgy of violence in the capital, San Salvador, that left, by official count...