On December 2, I stood in the small chapel on the grounds of San Salvador’s Hospital Divina Providencia, whose mission is to provide palliative care. Almost forty-five years earlier, on March 24, 1980, the archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, living on the hospital’s property ministering to the infirm, was behind this altar finishing his sermon.
As he concluded his homily, a shot rang out from a parked red Volkswagen in front of the sanctuary, through the church’s open doors, and into Romero’s heart.
My pilgrimage to where Romero died preaching the good news of liberation was a moving experience. I found myself kneeling beside the altar out of reverence, not just for the martyr’s blood spilled there, but also in remembrance of the 75,000 other sacred lives lost during the Salvadorian Civil War from 1980-1991.
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