Saturday evening, we returned to the UCA in the evening for the vigil commemorating the martyrs. We arrived in time to see the completed alfombras. We then gathered to hear a few speakers, watch a student dance group, and then light our candles and begin our procession through the campus. There were banners and images of the martyrs, which some of the students carried. There were several thousand people of us in the procession. The spirit was both joyful and…
On Friday, we visited the sites of Monseñor Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador 1977-1980. He is now San Romero de America, canonized in 2018. Romero was a pastor to the poor whom he adored, and they loved him back. Rather than accepting a fancy house from the oligarchs, he chose to live in a modest space at the Hospital Divina Providencia, which still offers palliative care to cancer patients. Romero demanded in his national radio broadcasts for an end…