A single gunshot echoed through a small Carmelite chapel in the dingy corners of San Salvador on March 24, 1980.
The chapel door had been left open in an attempt to mitigate the blanket of humid heat. Onlookers from outside looked within to hear Archbishop Óscar Romero close his homily, declaring “all those longings for justice, peace and well-being that we experience on earth become realized for us if we enlighten them with Christian hope.”
They were to be his final words. The eyes of the congregation followed those of Archbishop Romero himself, rising to the consecrated wafer of unleavened bread and missing the gun barrel pointing out of the back window of a nearby red Volkswagen Passat.
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