El Salvador Remembers Archbishop Romero

(22 Mar 10 - RV) 30 years on from his assassination, the life and legacy of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero is being celebrated in his native El Salvador and by church leaders in countries across the globe.

Known by local people simply as ‘Monsignor’, Archbishop Romero was shot dead on March 24th 1980, while saying Mass in the small chapel where he lived in the capital San Salvador.

English bishop Arthur Roche from Leeds is currently in San Salvador. He told Phillipa Hitchen about the celebrations that took place on Saturday outside the cathedral where Romero’s body was laid to rest...