Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero (1917-1980) was an El Salvadoran Catholic archbishop. He was shot while celebrating high mass in San Salvador's cathedral.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Today we are passing to our liberation through a desert strewn with bodies and where anguish and pain are devastating us. Many suffer the temptation of those who walked with Moses and wanted to turn back and did not work together. It is the same old story. God, however, wants to save the people by making a new history. ...History will not fail; God sustains it.

- The Church and Human Liberation (March 24, 1980), the last sermon before he was killed

Raisa Davydovna Orlova