Archbishop Oscar Romero.Priest, bishop, pastor. Martyred for the Gospel 30 years ago this week.
+Romero spoke it how it was, he told the truth each week in his Sunday sermon, he told people what was happening in El Salvador, the killings, abductions, the grinding poverty, the injustices and suffering of the poorest and most vulnerable.
He spent his time alongside the people, getting to know them and their lives, listening and learning, as a shepherd and pastor to the people.
He was not scared of death, but his enemies were scared of the truth, and of the Gospel with its preferential option for the poor. In this icon compare Oscar Romero standing with the vulnerable, and the American Huey helicopters.
Analogous to this comparison is the work of Kosuke Koyama - Water Buffalo Theology and The Three Mile an Hour God.
A 2005 mural by J. Reyes Yasbek entitled Verdad y Justicia (“Truth and Justice”). All photos by Richard Amesbury, with thanks to http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/damnation/presente/
“If they kill me, I shall arise in the Salvadoran people.”
