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On March 24, 1980, Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was saying Mass at a cancer hospital operated by a group of religious sisters. Midway through the service, gunmen entered the rear of the chapel, a hail of bullets rang out, and in another moment the archbishop lay dying in a pool of his own blood. Oscar Romero was a man who spoke for his people. He spoke for human rights; he spoke out against those in the government who made decisions that favored the rich and elite at the expense of the poor. He spoke for land reform; he spoke out against injustice.