Rutilio Grande

In El Salvador in the late '70s, one man was the voice of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the disappeared, all struggling under the corrupt Salvadoran government. Appointed Archbishop in early 1977, Monsenor Oscar Romero worked tirelessly and in constant personal peril until the day he was assassinated in March of 1980. Romero broke off ties with the military and aligned himself with the poor, delivering messages of hope in weekly sermons which...